Raw & Uncut

Continue to fall in love with God's raw and uncut truth. Devour its unprocessed & uncompromising matter. For Swallowing God’s uncut truth is like a baby digesting its first solid substance. It’s hard to swallow, but it contains the nutrients we need to maintain vitality. Though God’s truth scrapes the soul, pierces the heart, and is emotionally and mentally hard to digest, out of it comes a true, authentic, and healthy relationship with a loving Father that grows through eternity; plus the opportunity to experience His realness and His fullness.

Take a minute to be your own psychologist. Better yet, allow God to be your ultimate counselor. Perform a detailed introspection of your behavior. Allow God to reveal to you who you really are ( your wretched soul, sinful nature, and the idiosyncrasies of your heart). Don't cheat yourself by skimming the surface of your habitual nature, but ask God for the specifics of where it comes from, whether it’s a generational curse that is genetically and spiritually embedded in your chemical makeup, or just mere insecurity, pride, greed, & selfishness. What is the root of your repetitive actions?

After many years of frustration, I have finally come to the conclusion that only a few of us on earth actually experience the ultimate fullness of God and his abundant life on earth. A sample of the Christian population actually seeks God’s face and his truth. The rest of us, though still in the Body of Christ, are seeking his hands, the goods He has to offer, and the hype of the Christian image that comes with a package of religious fads. In other words, the rest of us thrive off of matter that the church caters to us as cheap grace. The material promises that God has in store for us should just be icing on the cake, not the essence of why you fall head-over-hills in love with Him. We should love Him for being who He is, and continuously thanking Him for His existence.

God is a God of order, and because we do not seek his truth, we never obtain the promises that he has in store. So the one who is destined for riches, may never see those riches because you have not faced the fact that you have an unresolved issue of selfishness. Or the one who has trouble attracting the opposite sex may continue to be ignored all because you have not faced the fact that you do not love yourself. Or the one who is constantly traumatized over simple matters will remain emotionally distracted because you have not faced the fact that you simply do not trust God, nor keep Him as your focus.

Be honest with yourself today, and may your relationship with God be authentic, not religious. The humor in the matter is that God already knows the complex ins and outs of our issues, and like a daddy He just sits and waits on us to be honest with ourselves. We are the hindrance to our own deliverance and emotional, spiritual, and physical prosperity. How come we have the hardest time in deciding to move out of our own way? Simple. Christians call every life test a tribulation that God allows the enemy to create, but honestly a lot of our tribulation is unnecessary temptation in which we have inflicted upon ourselves.

"I had been at the same mountain long enough. I have spent 40 years making what could have been a much shorter journey had I known the truth of God's Word."-{Battlefield of the Mind by Joyce Meyers}

May God Bless you according to your faithfulness and obedience to Him.

In Him,

Ashley

Philippians 3:7
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