Birthday Blogger

Here's a guest blog post from the birthday girl, Gabby!  Interesting insight in light (literally) of my post yesterday regarding the ways God fulfills each of our inborn needs.  There is such a razor thin line between needing things and people and needing things and people (read that sentence with the same tone as you would the question, "Do you like her, or do you like like her?").  Surely God provides all we need in Him, but there is no question that we are also sustained by things He created.  Some mysteries of God remain unfathomable (Job 11:7).

Anyways, not sure if I'm cheating by using a guest blog post during my 40-day blogging challenge...but go shawty, it's yaa burffday:

Horizontal lines. Direct lines. This is what we are taught, as kids, is best. The fastest way to get from one point to another is a straight line. When you have a problem, go straight to the source. Direct flights are always better than connections. You get the idea. Here's the thing: I think this is where we go terribly wrong in almost every relationship we've ever had. Maybe I'm being dramatic, but it's at least a temptation that I fall into nearly every day.

Let me try to explain what I mean. We have needs, and the Lord has put people in our lives to help us fill them. If we're in full-time ministry, we NEED supporters; when we are hurting and lonely, we NEED friends to comfort us; when we have surgery or other health issues, we NEED someone to take care of us. But too often we look to those people directly, and if they don't come through we feel angry and abandoned.

If we could alter our perspective ever so slightly and make that horizontal line look more like an upside down V a (  /\  so to speak )  we will better understand what God means when He says He gives us the privilege/responsibility to be His hands and feet. We must seek Him, ask Him, expect Him to fulfill those needs. He, in turn, can put it on other peoples’ hearts to serve us in whatever way we are needing, and they can respond by serving the Lord. We are simply the recipients of that obedience.