Intimacy of Engaging …

John 7:24 “Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment.”

Abba Father good morning – Judging will always cause our life to miss something intended to bring Godly purpose, intimate worth, and thriving passion to life. What are we missing in everyday life judging appearances or situations? The ways of this world are way too quick to respond. Judging without knowing intimate facts. Remember, judging always misses inner-cores of thriving life. It’s life-changing when we feel voids of a broken heart. It’s critical in understanding hardships, loneliness, trials a person is enduring within real moments of real life. What we see on the surface might appear undamaged, unscarred, unaffected. But within is where the battle is taking place. Turmoil stirs. Emotions become unrested. Life feels scattered. Remember, everyone has a heart, mind, soul that might or might not reflect on the outside what they are feeling within. The living bible teaches about accepting unconditionally. Non-judgmentally walking alone side with bold, courageous, fearless encouragement as uncertainties of this life become extremely real. We might never know what a simple smile might do. Spontaneous conversation might accomplish. Gentle touch with eye contact might instill. Or simple acts of service: phone call, personalized card, pan of bars, just stopping to say hi will do wonders to a broken spirit. Acts of service making a positive difference within a life: opening a door, carrying a bag, cutting a yard, shoveling snow, reaching out with compassion will do wonders to a broken spirit. The ways of this overcommitted world lives extremely unsatisfied. Living intensified: our time, our energy, our resources stretched beyond the boundaries of this very day. A day our living God created, designed, put in motion for enjoyment, encouragement, comfort, peace. Overshadowing our life with continuous living affirmation, undeniable faithfulness, protective promises. Enriching our life through spontaneous conversations of enjoying relationships with family, friends, all of life. This day has purpose, worth, and passion for all of life. Our sinfully imperfect life. Our living God loves all of life personally, unconditionally, intimately. Opening hearts, minds, souls with free-gifts of undeserved grace. Looking deep within our inner-core of life; believing, seeing, and enriching our life with anointed gifts radiating worthiness. Absolutely free-gifts breathing everlasting life into our life with anointed sustainable life from everlasting life in heaven. Life-changing gifts cleansing, redeeming, restoring ungodliness. Our Lord Jesus engaged intimately, lived passionately, and breathed intentionality by personal example how to put the living bible into bold, courageous, fearless action. Taking time to slow down, diligently listen, and reaching out to the broken hearted. Walking along side real people living real life non-judgmentally. Loving unconditionally, forgiving compassionately, providing hope with life-changing action with comforting words of encouragement. Intentionally engaging life after life within moments of life. Our Lord Jesus continuously reaches out into the darkness of this very world; using broken lives to enrich lives with purpose, worth, and passion. Taking what the ways of this world has rejected as broken, damaged, scarred, worthless. Intentionally encountering real lives while transforming real hearts, real minds, real souls; engaging inner-cores of thriving life breathing unique purpose, sustainable worth, thriving passion. Every life can live cleansed, redeemed, restored; intimately forgiven. Remember, everyone is a free-gift of undeserved grace to one another within our living God, our Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit reflecting the living kingdom of heaven among this world of sinful brokenness. Be intentional. Slowdown. How are we engaging lives? Moments of life engaging life. Remember, how we engage the hurting, broken, damaged and unworthiness of this world will reflect what actively lives deep within our heart, our mind, our soul. Believing, accepting, trusting, following within God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit; our inner-core of thriving life intentionally engages unconditional love, compassionate forgiveness, everlasting life in heaven. We have a choice, a decision, a way of life to choose. We can live within the ways of this world, missing God’s powerful undeserved grace breathing new freshness to everyday life. Or willingly engage life-changing treasures within God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. “Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment.” This is living life at its very best my friend.

Father – Thank you for reaching down into my humanistic life. Transforming my heart, my mind, my soul; my inner-core of thriving life. Help me take time to listen. Look into eyes. Feel hearts. Hold hands. Speaking words of encouragement while loving real people right where they are in life; sinfully imperfect but intimately worthy. Accepting everyone non-judgmentally and treating them as family. Father – Rest your hand on my life. Intimately protect me while intentionally helping me to be loving, forgiving, and engaging real people in a worthy manner breathing all praise, all honor, all glory to you Abba Father, Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit.

Michael J Zenner