Who am I supposed to be, Lord?

Who did and do you want me to be?

We lose our way when there’s a gap between what we want and what He does.

When we do His Will, the reward may be not what we immediately want; what our carnal selves desire; but it will bear the fruit of peace.

Favor and peace.

Who do you want me to be, Lord? 

Tell me this Lent.

Who do you want me be to —————– (my wife, my husband, )?

Who do you want me to be to —————–? (my children)

Who do you want me to be to ——————? (my parents, my brother, my sister)

Who do you want me to be to ——————? (my co-workers, neighbors, friends)

And so forth

Who do you want me to be, Jesus…

Here is the way we avoid wasting time and causing ourselves unnecessary stress.

Too often, we want what God has to offer or could offer, but not God Himself.

We go for the “church stuff” but not a direct relationship with the Almighty.

We don’t get along with others because there’s a gap between us and Him.

We don’t get along with others because we don’t get along with ourselves.

We say a rote prayer in the morning, and before a meal, and at night — but do we pray from the heart? Do we feel the gap with the Good God close? Do we pray long enough? Do we connect? Or are we plugged in only to electronics?

Always must we remember, as one preacher puts it, that the invisible and spiritual precedes the visible and physical: that what occurs and exists in the supernatural realms precedes what we observe from the narrow perspective, fraught with fog, of the flesh.

This is important: to see life — our lives — with spiritual eyes. So many of us (not to play on words) have lost sight of this!

When we see with eyes of the spirit, we realize that on earth we’re not in a playground.

We’re on a battleground.

The spiritual and supernatural precede the physical.

And when the evil hits us with force, when our name has been called, when it’s time for us to have the “evil day,” a trial, we stand firm. We stand in His sight. We must stand in His Might — not fleeing the battle but rushing to be alongside angels who know precisely how to fight their counterparts from the nether regions.

In the evil day, stand not in the flesh but in the spirit. Stand in Heaven.

Stand in Heaven and you are standing with, and close to, Him, and you are true to your real self.

[resources: The Deceiver]