Is Your Connection Clear?
Colossians 2:18-23 (New Living Translation)
18 Don’t let anyone condemn you by insisting on pious self-denial or the worship of angels, saying they have had visions about these things. Their sinful minds have made them proud, 19 and they are not connected to Christ, the head of the body. For he holds the whole body together with its joints and ligaments, and it grows as God nourishes it.
20 You have died with Christ, and he has set you free from the spiritual powers of this world. So why do you keep on following the rules of the world, such as, 21 “Don’t handle! Don’t taste! Don’t touch!”? 22 Such rules are mere human teachings about things that deteriorate as we use them. 23 These rules may seem wise because they require strong devotion, pious self-denial, and severe bodily discipline. But they provide no help in conquering a person’s evil desires.
I have a special type of ear piece for my cell phone, it is called a jaw bone. It is suppose to be one of the top of the line ear pieces for blocking out outside noise and giving the phone user a clear transmission and reception. My ear piece seemed to work fine until I broke the piece that goes around my ear, that holds the ear piece in place. Although my ear piece is usable I almost have to hold it in place to receive the quality that it once provided me with no effort. You see the ear piece is the same, but one broken element has caused an interruption in the clarity of the reception.
God aligns us with people for specific reasons in our lives. Some people come into our lives for a moment to give us a glimpse of something that God may want us to learn. There are some people that come into our lives for a season, they are there for a specific reason, to give us some things and to take some things away. Then there are those people that God had designed and designated to be apart of our lives for a life time. These people are designed to be teachers, partners, confidants, mentors, friends and precious commodities within our lives. It is sometimes difficult for us to identify what the connection is between us and people that come in our lives, because “we” are looking for specific things, and instead of letting God take the lead and develop and determine the relationship we do it ourselves. We try to make it what we want it to be instead of what God has ordained it to be. We can try to reshape and reconnect things endeavoring to make a clear connect, when all the while God has identified this person for something totally different then what we have; if only we had let God lead the way, we would end up with less drama, heartache and upset. Because God does all things well and with His direction our connection to individuals we encounter would be clear and concise.
As you enter the weekend, and we think of those that are in our lives in one way or another, it is important that our connections to them are clear. God wants us to let Him take the lead, so we do not end up being lead off a cliff by relationships that we have tried to develop into something they were never ordained to be. “He that has an ear let him hear what the “Spirit” is saying to the church,” That’s you! God has a plan for all of us that includes our connections to one another, and He will make clear the connections if we let Him!
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