I Am Feeling Some Kinda Way…
1 Corinthians 4:4-5 (New International Version, ©2011)
4 My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me. 5 Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God.
Have you ever had a moment or an encounter in your life when something someone did or said made you feel some kinda way about it? I believe we all have gotten to the point with people and situations that we were feeling something, but to articulate those feelings meant that we were actual responsible for them and that these feelings were now a recognized entity that needed to be either unleashed or dealt with and subdued. In these times the emotion does not necessarily have to be a negative one, but in many cases in context they are.
Recently I have been waking up heavy, God has been revealing things and I have been seeing many things, spiritually and naturally, God has been pulling back the covers and allowing things to be exposed and it has me feeling some kinda way about how things are going, who I allow to get to close to me and what God is doing in this season. As I stated at the end of last year, God began to speak to me about this year 2011, and I began to study and God said there was going to be a revealing, a separation of the wheat from the tare and He would identify who His hand was on. I have been sitting back and watching just this. My daughter has reminded me of the word God gave me, several times this year already, as things begin to identify themselves and people begin to expose themselves. As I also watch my own life transition from a place of ruin to accomplishment, I again feel some kinda way about that. There is a song we sing at church “Lord whatever you’re doing in this season don’t do it without me.” I sat under a Pastor in Japan that taught us to be conscious what we sang and what we were asking God to do, because we needed to count up the cost, because we did not know what would be required, or what could ultimately come out as a result of it. I understand that all too well in this season. People are saying things, confessing things and asking God for things not fully understanding what it will cost them, or cause to begin in their lives. We want the position without God or man really looking over our lives with a fine tooth comb, we want the trust without having to earn it and we want God and people to just go along with “our program,” without having to explain its validity or its relevance, or having first to come into obedience to Christ and His plan for our lives. The time has come that these things are being exposed and God is trying to tell us that He is feeling some kinda way about our lifestyles, actions, behaviors, attitudes, motives and words.
My mother says to me every time I seem like I am feeling some kinda way and throwing a mini tantrum with God about something He is requiring of me or doing, “God doesn’t care anything about your tantrums.” It is true, He is the one who has the final say, and no matter what kinda way we are feeling, He is God all by Himself and His word stands, His requirements stand. We have been the one prioritizing our feelings and forgetting about God and who He really is and how He is supposed to be treated in our lives. We have chosen to focus on the fact that God is loving and merciful, only without remembering that He is a jealous God and that He will not have anyone or anything come before Him, that He is a God of judgment, wrath and a God of war, and we cannot just do Him any kind of way and He not feel anyway about it. Just like things affect us and cause us to feel a particular kind of way, they do for Him too, but the difference is He does not avoid what He is feeling and He does not have to hold back His reaction. He is God and He can do as He please, He is the only one righteous enough to judge any situation, and to have an attitude, because He is the only one perfect; we forget at times that we are the ones created and He is the creator not the other way around. We aren’t the boss of God and we cannot demand that He change the rules of the game just for us and it happen, we can say it all we want, but God is still in control. It is time for us to stop feeling some kinda way and living any old kinda way and come into obedience and truth! Believe me when I say God is feeling something too!
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