Strong Courageousness Breathes Compassion
Joshua 1:9 “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go."
Abba Father good morning – Strong and courageous to the ways of this world is drastically different than strong and courageous to our living God. The ways of this world teaches being strong and courageous is exploring another person insecurity, weaknesses, volubility’s. Exposing restricting fears, failures, brokenness, sinfulness. Justifying every action initiated even when it’s demoralizing, demeaning, destructive. Intentionally stepping into the life of another. Using their weakness to build-up one’s own personal self-esteem with deflation of demoralization. Thriving on sins of others while boosting one’s own self esteem. Causing undue hardship, pain, anxiety, feelings of unworthiness. How is it possible to justify building oneself up while ripping apart lives of others? Tearing at hearts, minds, souls of others with no comforting compassion, intimate feelings, or personal consideration for damage to their life. Having justified it all with no justification. How is it possible to be strong and courageous while destroying lives? If we reflect-back and be absolutely honest. Have we not all participated in this behavior? Sometimes intentionally. Sometimes unintentionally. But truth is our imperfect life is imperfect. Our living God has a different way of being strong and courageous conflicting with the ways of this world. The living bible teaches about wisdom, perseverance, dedication, and reaching out to others with comforting compassion. Willingly reading, holding, embracing this book of truth. Our life learns the difference between the ways of this world and ways of our living God. We learn to build others up with compassion. We learn to reach out to those in need. We learn to expose strengths of others. We learn not to judge with condemnation. We learn to love unconditionally. We learn to forgive. We will absolutely remember how our life felt in times of distress, hardships, struggles, trials, temptations, uncertainties of this life of brokenness. We will feel what others feel. We will realize people are unique with gifts to share. We will see differences in lives, personalities, talents, abilities as unique gifts of undeserved grace. Gifts from our living God to enrich lives within life’s brokenness. Our living God created, designed, and put in motion this very day to draw our life close while opening our heart, our mind, our soul to love others unconditionally. All of life is a gift of undeserved grace to be thankful, grateful, and cherish. Every life matters. No life deserves to feel rejected, abandoned, worthless. This new day is filling every moment of our life with God’s amazing anointed faithfulness everywhere. Breathing an abundance of hope to our life breathing unconditional love, compassionate forgiveness, anointed promise of eternal life in heaven. Everyone will have hardships, struggles, trials, temptations, moments of uncertainties throughout this day. In this same day our life will encounter, be embraced, overshadowed relentlessly and breathe life with this amazing living God totally dedicated to our imperfect life. A God who thrives on loving this whole world, our life personally, unconditionally, uniquely, intimately. We can do absolutely nothing that will destroy this agape love breathing life into life with life from life. This amazing God breathes affirmation with encouragement, comfort with strength, discernment with wisdom, courage with endurance, faithfulness with dedication. Anointed promise’s to never leave us, never forsake us, never abandon us. Absolutely un-earnable, un-purchasable, un-creatable gifts of undeserved grace our life encounters, embraces, engages, and breathes freely with a life of faith willingly believing, accepting, trusting, following our living God, our Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit. We have a choice, a decision, a way of life to choose. Do we follow the ways of this world building our life on weaknesses of others? Or willingly follow God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. Intentionally reaching out with comforting compassion being strong and courageous in making a positive difference in lives. This is living life at its best my friend.
Father – Thank you for loving, forgiving, encouraging me. Breathe anointed blessing upon my broken imperfect life that will protectively overshadow me within every moment to be strong and courageous. Help me to reach out to others with utmost respect, dignity, and non-judgmentally. Loving them right where they are in life; imperfect but redeemable. Open my heart, my mind, my soul to treat them in a worthy manner that will bring all praise, all glory, all honor to you Abba Father, Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit.
Michael J Zenner