In His Likeness w/ AntTBri

There are some things we encounter, experience, and engage in that impact us so deeply that the foundation of who we are, what we believe, and what we will do is forever altered.  Is the expression of your life response authentic?  Are you free to live and love according to the plan and purpose of God?  Why or why not determines your future progression and explains yesterday’s procrastination.  How many of us will seek out the answer?  Have we learned how to accurately appropriate truth?

This process often times is painful and full of  discomfort, it is unsettling, we experience uneasiness and encounter uncertainty in those things we think and feel  in relation to God, ourselves, and others.  Our natural inclination is to resist, rationalize, and even recant the relevance of truth.  We begin to wrestle with or against those things that threatened our sense of normal, predictable, and routine thought process, practice, and performance.  The way we live and love God, ourselves, and others closely adhere to self imposed calculations of acceptable accountability. This produces a disparity that drastically limits our quality of life and love.  It promotes the self and denies the Spirit the right to reign.  It impacts our words, work, and worship.  Truth accurately perceived remedies the ill effects of dishonesty, denial, and death of purpose and passion.  Could it be that the fruit of today is a result of the seed we ingested, incubated, and infused into our beliefs, because it made us FEEL free in our expression, experience, and encounter?  What version of the truth are you handling?

Do you know how to negotiate the discomfort of THE truth that is tried and true? Is this the standard of what is to be believed and practiced? Is this the truth we measure, weigh, and balance every experience, encounter, and expression upon? Is this the truth we represent, defend, and contend for?  Is my preference, practice, and passion in line with the Word that is despite my comfort, cognitive, and choice?  We cannot continue to live our lives avoiding the truth because its realities are painful. Refusing to acknowledge it does not make the standard of practice/process any less true.  The covering of prayer does not absolve avoidance, arrogance, or actualities of what is and has not yet submitted or succumb to the Word. We must acknowledge, accept, and account for the truth of our choice, consequence, character, and circumstance despite what we feel and think if we are to experience, encounter, engage, and express freedom in our living and loving.

It is those things we think we know, are afraid of knowing, or refuse to know that keeps us bound to persons, places, and practices antithetical to the plan and purpose of God for our lives. If God represents and responds to truth it would be in our best interest to search out, speak forth, and stand upon the standard of truth as revealed to us through HIS WORD.  Are we praying and living amidst by our inability to properly assess truth? May God give us courage and confidence to KNOW the TRUTH and BE SET FREE~AntTBri