30 Days of Devotion: Day 02

Ephesians 3

Ok. So I am doing my readings daily, but I'm having trouble posting every day because I am a full time student, and part time barista. Life is busy.

But, I shall try posting the scripture, at least, so you have some idea of where things are going.
The details and writings may be weekly. If it helps I could analyze all of the daily scriptures at the end of the week. I think that might be easier.

We'll take it as it goes.

Recap on My Challenge of the Week:
As I said, I wanted to stop being so judgemental and critical. It's not that I become rude and impolite around people because of it! No. I just don't have any room to judge. That is that.
I think that by taking Social Working classes... I'm not generalizing people as much. Sort of. But the classes do make me think more about society and interactions. Having said that, I'm finding myself not relying on criticizing people's actions, but thinking about the greater picture. It's causing me to go back to those few verses in Revelations 2 & 3 that really opened my eyes to how stale and fragmented my faith has been. By seeing what I shouldn't be doing, and realizing what I could be doing, I am finding that by applying faith and prayer (believing that change will happen) to a situation/for a person, I'm drawing back to that part of enlightenment where I had that "A-Ha!" moment. Basically, I've realized the significance of Revelations 2 & 3 for my life, and what it means today! Not just how it relates to my history!

Neat, right !

I'm getting excited.

So yesterday (because I'm a bit behind in my devotions already :(), I read Ephesians 3. Key verses being (for me, at least) Eph.3: 14-19.

Basically this is confirming to me that... it doesn't matter where I've been... what I've done... I still have faith.

Sometimes we get so caught up in doing right or wrong that we forget the context. The context is love. There's not much more to understand or feel or do or whatever. Forget about rules for a second and meditate on the word "love." What does it mean to you? How do you live it out?

{Ok. So back to the rules. Don't forget them completely. There's something solid about what God's words mean. It's easy to ignore the Old Testament because it's...well.... old. But the point is that we should connect the old to the new. One can't live in the new without the old.

This will make sense later when I connect Ephesians 3 to an old testament piece of scripture.}

Focusing on Ephesians 3. . .

Love.

It's difficult to comprehend that there's a being whose love is so prominent in the word "life." I think that our human precipitance of the word "love" creates images of romance, couples, typical society-influenced ideas. We dismiss images and the knowledge that God's love is something that roots us and establishes us... and empowers us !

I feel like I've hit a bit of a block. Like there's something more I need to say about this... but I can't.... because it's something that I can feel... and partially see... but not put words to.