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Can we share in joy and share in sorrow? It is what we are supposed to do as a family in Christ Jesus. We are all supposed to be on the same team overall, and on our assignments. We know this all to well as children of God. Sadly, we are further away from sharing anything other than sarcasm. The gap is greater than any of us could have imagined.

I am not even sure we all meant to do it either! Maybe some of us did. We have to face the ugly truth even if we don't like to.

We all may have slowly taken these steps into what seemed to offer more freedom and less stress from each other. It may have felt like more freedom at first, we may have finally got to express ourselves as we know ourselves to be.

Maybe by doing this we didn’t even realize we took a "break" and during this we all never came back to each other! We lost our family in Christ and did not even notice it. A great example is when a disagreement pops off. We intended to or maybe we said we would talk about it once we cooled off, or once we sought the Lord out for solutions.

Turns out the devil is a liar and so are many of us if we can be honest.

Funny thing is some of our solutions were actually problems and we never actually returned to amend. We must have forgot? even though we swore it to the ones we once claimed to love.

Maybe we schemed our way out of having to face each other? and maybe that is because we don’t want to talk about the pain we may have caused each other? Or maybe we never really liked the people we pretended to like? Or maybe we were jealous of them so we decided to sabotage each other rather than support each other?

An example would be like when two people are married or in a close relationship things may of went sour, challenges came and life happened. The novelty wore off and the work kicked in?

In all this commotion this powerful silent space was created, the space started out in silence but it is evidently not empty. The space filled up with all the things we do not want to say to each other. Maybe we don't like each other? Or maybe we really do like each other? I have no idea.

That is ok because I love many and I do not like.

Side note story time

Have you ever got so mad at someone and you were lost for words and you told them you just don't like them? Or maybe that you did not like the person they were becoming?

Sometimes this space we allow gets filled with a lot of ugly things, the things no one likes to talk about, or even admit. This distance we create eventually falls and snares us all. We are forced into admitting something went terribly wrong "mysteriously" (lol) and we chalk it up as a loss and go our separate ways.

My point is that we were never designed to live our lives as a family in Christ this way and we were never designed to have a relationship with our Heavenly Father this way. We are supposed to love each other, fight with each other, rejoice with each other, weep with each other. If we cannot do this with each other it is because we don’t actually love each other.

When you love someone you are not afraid to show them your truth.

Which leads me back to the question, well why are we doing what we are doing?

What is point of pretending? This only leads us to fall into living in a culture that Jesus never created. Dead faith, I don't want to even use the word "religious" anymore because all this does is draw confusion to those who have yet to know Jesus!! People who do not know Jesus do not even understand why we take each other out the way we do. That is why many are like, naaaw I'm good with whatever you call that, whatever that is I do not want it.

I understand things happen to us all privately and corporately and some serious not so cool things are done to us. I am not saying that everyone is going to see eye to eye on everything we are not. We all are growing constantly and that is ok. We may not always like what others are growing into and it is ok to tell each other that in love.

Why can’t we be exactly like Jesus Christ intended us to be? Why can't I? Why can't you?

This is what He died for His vision for us all. Don’t we love Jesus?

I mean like really love Him? like not just in our heads as we like morning coffee, but do we love Him with everything we are?

It seems we care more about our own visions than His and that is what creates this space.

Maybe we all have to go back to that place? Perhaps get in our pjs and grab a Kleenex box and be honest. Reach out to Him, let it out,Lord I am not where I am supposed to be and I have fallen away. I am not what I was once and the truth is I want to be, but I do not know how.

Can you please help me Jesus?

That is a prayer and conversation Jesus is always ready to have with us all. Can we say this? I need to say this more than anyone.

Maybe then we can all unite together in truth and in love. We won’t have to dread the knife of another brother.

Can you imagine if every single time you went to do your dishes at home that when you reached for the soap it turned into a snake and bit your hand?

That would be outrageous and ridiculous for the following reasons;

1. There is a snake in your own home

2. Soap is used to clean dishes not soil them

3. And who wants to do dishes with a shark or snake in the water?

4. Then we are mad because we do not understand why the dish rack is empty, and the dishes are piling up.

I want to love, I want to fight, I want to do life with you as the Lord leads us. However we need to allow the Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us in all truth about everything especially His Church.

I am assured the Holy Spirit is going to move according to the Father's will and not ours. We all know this. So what is the point of fighting Him? He is going to do it anyway?

Something I have been thinking about.

Romans 12: 15

15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those weep.

Blessings

Jesus Christ Forevermore