In His Likeness w/ AntTBri

Before you say yes or no, you will or you won’t, you first must decide what will be the standard or governing authority of your practice, profession, and purpose.  What will be the determinant of right or wrong, good or bad, life-giving or death producing and necessary or not needed for my living and loving? Answers must address, adhere, and be accountable to the question asked. It is absolutely unfair to address, accuse, and augment over things never discussed just pondered, felt, and maintained as your own truth. That offsets relationships and tears away at the fabric of what could be. Let’s come from behind the eight-ball and aim to win at life and love. Prepare to love and be loved. PREPARATION! PREPARATION!  PREPARATION! Preparedness is the key of acquisition, attainment, and the answers you give and accept.

What, why, how, when, and where are basic questions however they can be answered many times in great detail. The more involved answers provide a larger scope of understanding and clarity. When deciding to live and love it would be to our advantage to not only ask questions but to be prepared to give an answer of how we aim to live and love.  That’s right, “know” before going in, getting involved, giving up all of you… what you will and will not do (in every circumstance), what you are willing and able to give as an expression of love to enhance another’s quality of life.  You decide…it’s your choice…your consequence and for love and life to work you must be able to live in and with them both.  There is no way around it…we have to do the work of relationship with God, ourselves, and then others. Answers are developed fully in time…they are discovered after a while but once you have them you know what you know comfortably, confidently, and committed(ly).

Boundaries, barriers, and a balance beam must be in place if we’re going to love whole heart without fear and alarm. If we are ever going to replicate God’s love entirely we must do love and life HIS WAY.  It cannot and will not happen without Him being the standard, source, and substance of what is purposed, practiced, produced and promulgated. You cannot produce, become, or be what you do not understand or do not believe.  It is a matter of impossibility…the problem is many of us are trying to love and live without studying, searching out, and synchronizing our hearts to God’s purpose, passion, and plan for our lives and love.  This is the one area we like to choose, decide, and work out for ourselves.  And sadly to say, many of us look at OUR failed attempts as an indictment against God believing love and life is not for us…that it doesn’t work.  Why can’t we see that our choice to live and love based upon how we feel, desire, and think life and love should be… sentences us to a perpetual cycle of dysfunction, despondency, and disadvantage.

Talk to God about your life and love …about everything you feel, fear, hope, desire, understand, struggle to understand…don’t leave nothing out.  He wants you to share life and love with Him…he will talk, teach and train you how to live and love successfully. Listen! Learn! Live and love carefully according to what you hear God saying to you through His Word, works, and workmanship (people). How will you know if what you hear is God and not what you want or feel at the time? Utilize the boundaries, barriers, and balance beam of the Word to decipher what God is saying and would have you do. The bible is the standard of the believers practice, profession, and process. It will always reveal and confirm God’s purpose, plan, and passion for or against EVERY aspect of life and love. With God you are never at a disadvantage in life and love…the Word contains the how to of life and love.  We simply have to come into agreement and live and love accordingly.  This boundary, barrier, and balance beam safeguard’s us from oops, not again, and I knew it wouldn’t work out…not to mention it serves as the reason for our hope…it is the answer to life and love.

Before you get wrapped up in emotions, bombarded by the things and acts of love YOU have to take the time to explore what will work and won’t work FOR YOU when making a choice unto life and love. The answer you give should be based upon the standard of your practice. It derives from the questions you ask God about how you should live and love and the answers He gives. Maybe the boundary, barrier, and balance beam we need is simply asking God is this who or what you have for me? Is this what you want for me (your will)? What or where is your heart on this? Our continual prayer should be: “God show me your heart, what you feel, desire and want for my life and love.  Work the will to do in me what is your good pleasure and help me to adhere to the boundaries, barriers, and balance beam you have set forth for my life and love. You are and will remain my standard of practice, experience, and expression. Lord I surrender my thought process, feelings, desires, etc. to you in exchange for your heart unveiled before me. Who do you desire to love through my expression of being?  What will you have me do? How would you have me do? WHEN will you have me do?  What’s my assignment of life and love? God will answer you…He is committed to your outcome…you have an expected end and the answer you give should be given in light of the answer God gives for your life and love. ~AntTBri