THE FAMILY OF GOD

I LOVE YOU

COMING ACROSS THIS PHOTO TODAY...REALLY SET ME BACK ON MY HEALS...

I'M ASHAMED TO SAY..."I REALLY DON'T HAVE A CLUE"...WHEN IT COMES TO LIVING IN A WAY THAT PERHAPS THE LARGEST POPULATION OF THE WORLD LIVES...

MY WHOLE LIFE'S EXPERIENCE...EVEN AS DYSFUNCTIONAL AS IT WAS BEFORE I MET CHRIST...STILL WAS SHELTERED AND STRUCTURED IN A WAY THAT MY FLESH DIDN'T WANT FOR MUCH...MATERIALLY, PHYSICALLY, OR FINANCIALLY...

THERE WAS A MORAL CODE THAT WAS A RULE AND STANDARD BY WHICH MOST LIVED AND OR WERE EXPECTED TO LIVE BY...IN THAT I CAN IDENTIFY...THOUGH LIVING BY IT WASN'T ALWAYS THE RULE.

I'VE SEEN DOCUMENTARIES OF PEOPLES THAT LIVE IN HARMONY AND PEACE IN SPITE OF THEIR BURDENED LIVES...WITH THE SIMPLEST OF COMFORTS...CHURCHES THAT ARE ALIVE WITH THE JOY AND PRESENCE OF THE LIVING GOD...

THEY TRULY EXEMPLIFY THE LIVING TEMPLE WHICH HOLY SPIRIT FILLS AND REVEALS CHRIST...

IT IS THE MOVING OF HIS SPIRIT...ANYPLACE...WHERE OPEN AND HUNGRY HEARTS RESIDE...THOSE CALLING OUT HIS NAME IN ALL TRUTH..."LORD COME BY ME."

THEIR TITHE IS THE SONG OF PRAISE...IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH...AND THE BONDS OF LOVE BETWEEN BRETHREN...

LORD...CAUSE ME TO REMEMBER THAT I AM A MEMBER OF ALL YOUR MANY MEMBERED BODY...AND THAT I HAVE MUCH TO LEARN FROM THE VERY LEAST... OF WHO I AM...