Life Engaging Life …

Philippians 2:4 ~ Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. 

Abba Father good morning ~ Unity is hard to maintain with diversity. Bringing people together of all nations. All races. All genders. All ages. Real people living real life with sole purpose of enhancing life. Unity willingly accepting without judging. Without condemning. Without discrimination. Without having an alternative motive for personal gain. Unity feels intimate agape love. Compassion with emotions. Extending forgiveness when it hurts. Unity starts deep within our heart with real feelings of love. Penetrates our mind with compassion to help. Occupies our soul with desires to forgive. Unity is breathed purposefully, intentionally, intimately. Effort with motion generating loving action believing all lives matter. Breathing life at its very best within God the Father ~ God the Son ~ God the Holy Spirit. We live among a lifestyle of constant busyness. Chaotic dysfunction. It seems every moment has been claimed, occupied or unavailable. Wrapped around everyday living. Living among this world of many choices spinning rapidly in all directions. It can be overwhelming to stay focused. We get exhausted just reflecting on this day: traffic, cell phones, texting, emails just to start. Realizing we must cook, clean, care for real people. Responsibilities to be actively completed. Everyday tasks that just wouldn’t go away; they take time, energy, resources. Our life has been trained by the ways of this world to automatically go into survival mode to make it through each day. Our time is over stretched. Our energy is constantly drained. Our temper on edge. We have depleted the resources in our own life that bring strength to help others. How is this possible to live life and miss so much thriving life? When was the last time you left the cell phone behind? Took a walk through the neighborhood? Engaged in a spontaneous conversation? When was the last time you turned the computer off? Visited a real person face to face? When was the last time you reached out into a life with sole purpose of sharing life? When was the last time you relaxed playing a yard or board game? Playing catch. Riding a bike. Having a bonfire. Or just plain sharing stories among real people? There is a reason God provided living nature, magnificent universe, all of life. There is a reason for a shady tree, blooming flower, gentle breeze, soft caterpillar. A sunny day, thunderstorm, snowstorm. The list continues on my friend. These free-gifts of life are from The Lord Our God who actively loves all of life. Overshadowing our life with sole-purpose of living renewed, refreshed, redeemed, restored. Refocusing our life with free-gifts of God’s powerful life-changing undeserved grace we absolutely cannot earn, cannot purchase, cannot create on our own. Moments where life engages life. These anointed gifts overshadow all of life with hope to breathe, compassion to feel, agape love to engage, forgiveness to release. A gentleness this world can never provide. Undeserved grace actively breathes everlasting life (Holy Spirit) into life’s brokenness (our sinfulness) within anointed sustainable life (Christ Jesus) within everlasting life in heaven (Abba Father). These free-gifts cleanse, redeem, restore all sinfulness. Life-changing gifts opening our heart, our mind, our soul to realize there is much more to life. Just surviving is not our sole purpose. The living bible teaches Our Lord Christ Jesus was constantly reaching out into this world of extreme brokenness. Getting involved in real lives. Taking time to slow-down. Showing compassion. Touching with gentleness. Always making time to extend life-changing agape love reflecting worthiness. Non-judgmentally sacrificially forgiving while restoring everlasting hope. Breathing compassion with all the fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Our life will have opportunities to make a positive difference within lives we encounter within moments of God’s powerful undeserved grace. It will require living aware of our surroundings. Taking-action. Getting-involved. Reaching-out. Engaging-willingly. Something happens deep within our inner-core of thriving life as we willingly breathe God’s life-changing undeserved grace. Something comes actively alive when we intentionally reach into broken lives of real people living real life. Something actively changes within our heart, our mind, our soul. There’s a transformation occurring in both lives restoring strength to the weak. Energy to the weary. Hope to the hopeless. Faith to the faithless. Remember ~ We have a choice, a decision, a way of life to choose. Living intentionally ready, actively prepared, intimately equipped for moments of everlasting life within God the Father ~ God the Son ~ God the Holy Spirit will require our time, our energy, our resources ~ Our life. 

Father ~ Thank you for getting intimately involved within my life. Restoring my hope. Rejuvenating my strength. Refurbishing my faith. Father ~ Open my heart, my mind, my soul to see everyone as a free-gift of life-changing undeserved grace. An anointed gift of life breathing everlasting life in heaven. Godliness coming alive within my sinful life as I willingly breathe everlasting life in heaven within you Abba Father, Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit.

Michael J Zenner