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!