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Gretchen Mure Rodriguez

Day #4 Feeling God or Feeling Fleshy

My favorite days are the days where I am so consumed with God's presence that nothing is able to divert my attention, even in the midst of doing it. Today however, was not one of those days. To be honest, I think I turned my alarm off in my sleep! That means I didn't wake up early enough to get my alone time with Him. No condemnation though, right?

So, Jesus and I hung out together just living life. Oh, my daughter and I did break up a big fight! Driving in the car-- see a BIG BAD fist fight...large group of teens...nobody could stop it and it was getting bigger. 
No way! Not on MY watch! "In Jesus name I command you to stop!" Oh the power of His name--fight stopped. YAY JESUS! Actually, today was the day I was faced with opposition regarding what I posted yesterday - being QUITE tested. One of those, "I'm sorry Jesus." "Ugh, sorry again." "Ugh, man I am really sorry." "Jesus, HELP!" ...kind of days. It seems like that's probably a bad thing, but the truth is, it's not. I need Him and I always will!

We all have days where we "feel" more tapped into His presence and days we don't. Either way, we are tapped in - even on the days where our flesh is...fleshy! We can't earn His love, we can't DO anything to earn a deeper walk with Him; He already did all the "DO'ing" that needed to be done. All we have to do is believe in our inclusion with Him and on days like today-- close our eyes every so often and thank Him for His mercy. Then take a deep breath of His presence and know that He's with us, even if our flesh is too fleshy to feel it. 

It's my GREAT desire to live in the place of continual bliss. I'm NOT going to ever stop coming closer and closer to living in this reality. I hope you won't either. But as we go from glory to glory with fleshy days in between, we have to remember that we ARE going from glory to glory. We are! 

Gretchen

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