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-out real life with sole purpose of enhancing life. Unity is 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 intentionally. 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 occupied. Wrapped around every day 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 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 is on edge. We have depleted the resources in our own life that bring strength to help others. How is this possible to live-out life and miss out on so much? 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 lives of 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 gifts of life are from our living God who loves all of life. Overshadowing our life with purpose of being 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, unconditional love to engage, forgiveness to release. A gentleness this world can never provide. Undeserved grace breathes eternal life into life’s brokenness with anointed sustainable life from everlasting life in heaven. These free-gifts cleanse, redeem, restore. 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 Christ Jesus, Our Lord was constantly reaching out into this world. Getting involved in real lives. Taking time to slow-down. Showing compassion. Touching with gentleness. Always making time to extend unconditional love reflecting Godly worth. Non-judgmentally forgiving while restoring 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 the lives we encounter within moments of God’s powerful undeserved grace. It will require being aware of our surroundings. Taking-action. Getting-involved. Reaching-out. Engaging-willingly. Something happens deep within our inner-core of life as we willingly breathe God’s life-changing undeserved grace. Something comes alive when we intentionally reach into broken lives of real people living-out real life. Something 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. We have a choice, a decision, a way of life to choose. Being intentionally ready, prepared, equipped for moments of everlasting life within God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. Remember. Living-out Godliness will require our time, our energy, our resources. Our life. This my friend is living life at its very best.  

Father – Thank you for getting involved within my life. Restoring my hope. Rejuvenating my strength. Refurbishing my faith. 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