Change.

         We're changing things, folks.  Changing to WordPress.  

This blog address will still be here to come back and read old posts, but future ones will be posted at: setmyheart.wordpress.com      also, the photography blog I used to post at will no longer have new posts, either.  All things blog and website related for me will now be posted at  setmyheart.wordpress.com

I sincerely appreciate those of you who read here at Fruitloops in my pants and I hope you will continue at Set My Heart.

Out, dawgs. 

He's picked me up and He's turned me around.

My choice is you, God, first and only. And now I find I’m your choice! You set me up with a house and yard. And then you made me your heir! The wise counsel God gives when I’m awake is confirmed by my sleeping heart. Day and night I’ll stick with God; I’ve got a good thing going and I’m not letting go. I’m happy from the inside out, and from the outside in, I’m firmly formed. You canceled my ticket to hell— that’s not my destination! Now you’ve got my feet on the life path, all radiant from the shining of your face. Ever since you took my hand, I’m on the right way.- Psalm 16:5-11 MSG

Praise The Lord! 

I am The Lord's.

       I am The Lord's.  

      

Each time I awake I remind myself, "I am The Lord's".   

      I am The Lord's.  And that changes everything. 

His Spirit on our spirit, His Life on our lives.

 

     Does it sound like we’re patting ourselves on the back, insisting on our credentials, asserting our authority? Well, we’re not. Neither do we need letters of endorsement, either to you or from you. You yourselves are all the endorsement we need. Your very lives are a letter that anyone can read by just looking at you. Christ himself wrote it—not with ink, but with God’s living Spirit; not chiseled into stone, but carved into human lives—and we publish it. We couldn’t be more sure of ourselves in this—that you, written by Christ himself for God, are our letter of recommendation. We wouldn’t think of writing this kind of letter about ourselves. Only God can write such a letter. His letter authorizes us to help carry out this new plan of action. The plan wasn’t written out with ink on paper, with pages and pages of legal footnotes, killing your spirit. It’s written with Spirit on spirit, his life on our lives! The Government of Death, its constitution chiseled on stone tablets, had a dazzling inaugural. Moses’ face as he delivered the tablets was so bright that day (even though it would fade soon enough) that the people of Israel could no more look right at him than stare into the sun. How much more dazzling, then, the Government of Living Spirit? If the Government of Condemnation was impressive, how about this Government of Affirmation? Bright as that old government was, it would look downright dull alongside this new one. If that makeshift arrangement impressed us, how much more this brightly shining government installed for eternity? With that kind of hope to excite us, nothing holds us back. Unlike Moses, we have nothing to hide. Everything is out in the open with us. He wore a veil so the children of Israel wouldn’t notice that the glory was fading away—and they didn’t notice. They didn’t notice it then and they don’t notice it now, don’t notice that there’s nothing left behind that veil. Even today when the proclamations of that old, bankrupt government are read out, they can’t see through it. Only Christ can get rid of the veil so they can see for themselves that there’s nothing there. Whenever, though, they turn to face God as Moses did, God removes the veil and there they are—face-to-face! They suddenly recognize that God is a living, personal presence, not a piece of chiseled stone. And when God is personally present, a living Spirit, that old, constricting legislation is recognized as obsolete. We’re free of it! All of us! Nothing between us and God, our faces shining with the brightness of his face. And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him. -2 Corinthians 3:1-18 MSG

      Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others, epistles of commendation to you or letters of commendation from you? You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. And we have such trust through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels. For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious. Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech— unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away. But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ. But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord. -2 Corinthians 3:1-18 NKJV

Found.

Where?   Where are you found?

        There is this innate longing in the human to be truly found; to be truly found in something MORE. Often times we will try to fill this void that pierces us to our very core with something or someone.  We want them/it to be who we draw our security, purpose, confedienece, soul satisfaction, worth, comfort, identity, fulfillment and very LIFE from.  We are empty and need to be filled,  lost needing to be found, our very being cries it out. It doesn't simply bring it to our attention, making us ponder, no, it demands an answer. "WHERE?", it asks in a state of need, out of a state of well-beyond desperation. 

Humanity is crying out, but they don't know what for.  They're crying out for LIFE. To love and to be loved.  

 "...they have ears, but they do not hear."  They do not hear God Almighty saying, "I AM WHERE." The Lord wants YOU to see that He, Creator of The Universe, wants to come in and be where you're found.  He wants to forgive you of your sin and clothe you in His righteousness.  He is much, much more than your fulfillment.  He wants you to turn you're heart away from darkness and towards Him to be able to hear. To hear that He is Almighty God and you can choose to be FULLY found in Him. 

So there it is.  We cannot fill the void or be our 'where'. Only He who has overcome death itself can. The best part? He's available and available in unending abundance.  You can do ETERNITY with The King of Kings as the center of your life.

 We are created intentionally to serve The Lord.  To press into and onto Christ.  To be truly found is to choose and to grab ahold of Christ and Him Crucified; to be found is to be In Christ.  We were made for Him.  Nothing and no one except Jesus Christ is worth it.  He is the ONE found worthy.  

Jesus is saying, "In ME you are found, no one else. I am the answer, come follow me."  The question is, how will you answer? 

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.-Colossians 1:15-20

A Higher Standard.

I have a situation for you to analysis, it is the following:


So, hypothetically someone deeply offends you, and the offender is deeply aware of it, also. 

     You, the offended can have this hurt or let it go.  In the natural you almost have a right to be offended, even the offender(s) know that.  Maybe this person even knew that their chose could hurt you, or maybe they didn’t. But that is not what the point is in this post.

   So here you hypothetically are with the hypothetical RIGHT to be offended.  The offender, hypothetically, has no rights in this situation.  The World’s Standards are real low and they tell you, the offended, have been wronged and thus you should push the offender down into the dirt and spit on them.  Or there are those who try to maintain a ‘higher’ standard and you are told by them to stick your head up, you have a right to hold grudges, get on with your life, and ‘you have more worth than that’. 

     The above listed standards leave us with something, but it’s not a solution.  In fact, they leave us with problems, hurts, insecurities, death, chains, bondage and often times are the roots of many of the problems you could hypothetically have the rest of your life.   Thus, these standards don’t move us forward, they indeed tear down the offended AND the offender.   Bottom line is darkness offers problems, not solutions.

There are other standards, though. Standards not of the world.  Standards that know no bounds, in forgiveness and many, many other things.  These standards are the supernatural, not the natural. It requires choosing the standards of the supernatural and putting to death the standards of the natural in your life.   It’s possible through THE coolest dude around, God Almighty, who has overcome death, which means He has overcome the world’s standards.

   Jesus offers to pour out His Spirit on us, if only we’ll repent and truly chose it! His Children have The Spirit of The Risen Lamb LIVING and reigning abundantly in them! This is the same Jesus who overcame the world, thus those who grab ahold of and receive Him, through His grace and choosing this life in Him, have overcome the world’s standards also.

          Jesus leaves us with something, but it’s not problems.  Jesus’s standard is one of radical, true, deep, free, unending, and abounding LIFE and LOVE.  In Christ, we are called to this higher and supernatural standard.  

The best part?  This standard isn’t one of death, darkness, and problems.  Christ Jesus’s standard is one in, through, too and Him, it’s not under the law or anything else.  It’s in HE who is LIFE.  In Christ, we sow to Holy Spirit. We don’t sow to darkness.

          We can choose alignment with The Living Redeemer as our standard that brings Life, Joy, Passion, Satisfaction, True Identity, Purpose and many other supernatural things or we can choose alignment with darkness as our standard that brings death and all that funk.

          So here you go, The Spirit’s standard is one of radical love and forgiveness.  When we choose it we are set free.

In all areas of life, let’s choose The Spirit’s standards.  I am under Him and Praise The Lord that we do NOT have to be subject to anything of this world.  Through my Savior,  I am Redeemed and called HIS!  

We get the privilege of choosing to wholly function in The Fullness of Christ, which is unending. Life in Christ is the highest standard and I'm stoked that He gives it too us in such a beautiful way.

 Jesus Christ is my standard. And it's all because of Him.

    The World offers standard’s that bring problems.

    Jesus offers standards that bring solutions.  Eternal, lasting, and more than we can imagine.

Get into The Lord and His Word.  He is LIFE! 

Dear child, snap out of it.

He just wants us to see.  He loves us. 

Unendingly, crazily, and truly.  He really loves us. And He wants his church to see, there's more. 

   I have had my 'sometimes'. 

These 'sometimes' occurred when God would clearly tell me, lead me, etc. to do something. Something for Him. 

   Flesh in me would sometimes say "but God, I..." usually consisting of how I'm just a girl and so and so will think this of me if I and this and that and how I've failed and how I obviously can not do this and how....or why would he chose me.....or I'm not good enough...BUT GOD says kindly, powerfully, supernaturally "Look up." 

He says to look up to HIM and to grab a hold of the fact that HE, Christ Jesus, I AM lives and reigns in me.  And He is not sometimes, but He is ALWAYS, and His always will be always.  He is calling His followers to AWAKE to who he is. to go deeper in Him, to snap out of 'I'.  The question is will you? 

Jesus is the one I do life in, not darkness.  In Christ, I have ALL of Him. So, I say yes to all ALL of Him. And guess what?

It changes everything.  

  So, if you're a Believer what will you choose? There is His abundance available unendingly to YOU. 

Press into and onto Him. Let go of the limitations on Him placed in you by humanity. BELIEVE. More. And that's the thing, keep choosing Christ's MORE. 

Arise above it and choose wholeheartedly to do this Christ life in HIM to the deepest places. Throw of everything else continually and chose Jesus. Jesus must be our all. Fah realzies. 

"...and you have been given fullness in Christ."-Colossians 2:10

YOU and I have been given fullness in Christ.  It's a choice to operate in it. 

Aslan is on the move and he wants you to be apart of it.  Simply because he loves you. 

I could go on. But at the conclusion of this, get into The Word. Truly.