God is concerned about everything that concerns you and His plan is to be intimately involved in every aspect of your life. Knowing and believing this truth has made my walk with Him an adventure rather than a religious obligation.
One of the churches I attended in the past presented a God who was scowling, trying to keep us from having fun. This is not at all the image I have of God, nor the image that I believe the Bible presents.
Nehemiah 8:10 tells us that the joy of the Lord is our strength. In John 10:10 we are told that "the thief" comes to kill, steal, and destroy, but that Jesus came that we might have and enjoy life.
It is God's will for us to enjoy life!
A spiritually healthy person is usually very others-directed, globally. There’s a quote from a second century theologian that says a spiritual person is a person who’s “fully alive.” Not someone closed off, with blinders on, pulling in, afraid to sample the world. But, instead, someone utterly convinced this is God’s world, and here to explore and to reach out and to try to represent God in this world. Of course, that means caring for the needy, but it also means flat-out enjoying the great goodness of this world around us. I look at the spiritually healthy people in the Bible and they’re characters, every one of them. They’re wild people. They’re out of the box. We’re not supposed to be cookie-cutter, uptight people. We’re supposed to be fully alive.
I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows). - John 10:10
Blessings,
Dalinda
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