“Living Recklessly For God”

Father God let this touch someone’s heart today. Bring Your healing to all lives today. Everyone needs some form of healing, let me be the first to ask for Your assistance without hesitation in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
Funny thing happened yesterday. I was walking with my bowl of salad, when this guy reached out to take it and said: Oh, thank you. Just what I wanted. I laughed and he laughed with me. Then I proceeded to sit down and pray with my husband for the food and those who prepared it. I also thanked God for that man with a sense of humor. Everything we do starts from the mind, heart and then mouth. Two main parts that run the whole body and tells it what it is going to do. Didn’t really comprehend this concept till recently. I always work hard and do everything in my own strength and have done nothing but harm myself instead of learning to let go and let God. Example: I can take a label off a jar by scrubbing hard with all my might and get it all the label off the jar. Still there is glue left behind. Another way is to soak the jar, so the label comes off easier. Then take a scrubby and lightly swipe the surface and the glue comes right off and I didn’t have to over work to get the glue off.
So, I said God you know in this life I have always worked and been in fear that I would lose my job or not be good enough. All along Lord You have been with me and I should have known this all along. God Works through the Church. We can’t begin to understand the mind of God, but we can learn a lot about Him through His word. Another way to recognize God at work in your life is if you experience: a desire for God. One of the most common and least recognized ways that God is constantly working in our lives is in giving us a desire for him. It’s easy to think that a desire for God is something that we produce ourselves. Not so! Our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit. When we over work our bodies, we are destroying the Temple. It reads in 1 Corinthians 6:19, it is stated, “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own.” This means that our bodies are not our own but of God, and that is why it should be clear and pure of unnecessary impurities.
So, when we apply pressure in our work to destroy our bodies and not work it for the good of God. We only harm ourselves. It is not God that harms us. {The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands. Psalm 8:3}
I take a shovel and dig a baby tree out of the ground, plant it in a container and then for days my foot hurts from all that work and pressure on my foot. When I should have taken my battery-operated saw and sawed around that baby tree about 6 inches or so in the ground and it would have come out much easier to place in a container. It would of taking less time also.
And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one. This is how to work at home. Love that peace and quiet at home. “Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men. Read: Colossians 3:23-24″ This is so true. When we work to make a paycheck. We have to give it our all. Sometimes more than usual. When knowing we are working for God and not men our lives become much easier and free. It is healthy for the body and mind to work hard, serving God and others with our gifts from the Lord. I believe that eating healthy, and being healthy, strengthens one’s connection with God. This stronger connection with God strengthens one’s conversations with God, through prayer, and in whatever mysterious ways God communicates to us. Taking care of our health is one way that we can be a good witness. You’ll Have More Energy to Do God’s Work: ” For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10.” Let us see that we are God’s masterpiece, created to do the good things that He had planned a long time ago for us to do. When seeking to understand God’s salvation by grace through faith. However, this important statement offers tremendous insight into what God desires after salvation and how we should live with abandon. The first time I heard that expression, “a life reckless abandon,” Reckless abandon with rash, unrestrained impulsiveness, enthusiasm, or zeal. Reckless abandon. What does it mean anyway? Basically, it’s to do something without fear of consequence. Isn’t that a negative connotation? I guess it could be, but what if we apply it to Christian living? If we apply it to Christian living, it means that we follow God without fear of consequences. It means we cast everything aside to follow him. Being without commonsense I thought! Scary! If you look at it with God mind set. We can be enthusiastic about continued conversation with God. Can’t this mean abandoning reckless behavior and living recklessly for God. Giving of yourselves to the poor and helping them. In the spur of the moment giving a donation to the hospitals, church’s, a poor person on the street. I saw this poor man on the street corner. He was selling waters out of a beat-up cooler with ice in it. I gave him $5.00, and he gave us the water in his hand and asked if we wanted another. We said no of course. That man was earning his way and he was doing it recklessly at an intersection. Was he needing help? Yes! Was he working recklessly for Jesus? Yes! It is hot out there. The man was selling cold waters out in the hot sun to people in the comfort of their vehicle’s… He lived under the freeway. God will keep blessing that man working out in that hot sun selling cold waters. {Poor is he who works with a negligent (Careless)hand, But the hand of the diligent makes rich. Romans 12:11}
I like this quote: “I have one desire now – to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.” ~Elisabeth Elliot

Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015) was a missionary and a critically acclaimed author and speaker. For over half a century, her life of obedience, timeless teachings, and best-selling books. She continued to travel and speak all over America sharing her story, her knowledge, and wisdom of God’s Word until her health stopped her in 2004. Elisabeth Elliot lost her first husband to murder in the South American jungle and her second to the ravages of cancer. She felt the deep pain of loss. In The Path of Loneliness, Elliot gives hope to the lonely through tender reflections on God’s love for us and his plans to bless us.

“Prayer”

Father God, I thank You for Your love. I believe that You would place Your godly love into my heart so that Your love may flow through me to all my brothers and sisters in Christ. Assist me to love with brotherly and sisterly affection. Also consider the needs of others before my own. I thank You and praise You for the Word of God, the godly instructions and promises that are laid out for the Church in the epistles of Paul. I am believing to rejoice in hope, endure in tribulation, and persevere in prayer in all aspects of life and to be recklessly giving and good in Your light I love You in Jesus Precious Name Amen.