More on Blessings and Curses

I am amazed that I would have anything else to say on the Blessing and Curses matter but I woke up with this thought 'How amazing of God to limit the curse on us but offer a limitless blessing!' I mean, if someone HATES God - deliberately worships another god - that curse upon that family for rejecting God is over within 3 or 4 generations. Meaning by the 3rd or 4th generation - God allows the eyes of that generation to be open to Him.

How cool is that!?! So, if my grandparent's parents rejected God and chose an idol as their god alone and if they HATED God.... then by the time I came along the curse would be removed and I would have eyes to see and ears to hear. The only thing left would be for my heart to seek after God and choose to trust God and ask for His forgiveness and for me to receive Christ as my Savior. In my situation, there are still two living generations before me and so it is quite possible for them to see my choice and it is quite possible for them to choose to turn to God as well. There is an end to the curse.

But the blessing..... OH! WOW! The blessings are unending! The choice to worship God and to seek Him brings blessing for 1000 generations. That is immeasurable! That is beyond what I could imagine! That is beyond the realm of my influence! That is a merciful and compassionate God!

I know I related the scripture of Exodus 20: 4-6 with 'seeing and hearing' and that is not a direct interpretation of that scripture but I do see how living under the umbrella of a distorted truth versus living under the umbrella of THE Truth is a form of a curse in our lives. Distorted truth limits us, distorted truth binds us up in areas of our lives, distorted truths keep us from full freedom in Christ. The umbrella of Christ, THE Truth, provides real freedom in all areas of our lives.

A mindset can be a curse of sorts because it blocks us from seeing who God really is. It blinds us to understanding the heart of God. We all have mindsets that block us from seeing God truly. I know I've seen a few distorted truths shown under The Light of Truth recently, via prayer, and the great thing is once you see The Truth in the matter at hand - all it takes is for you to repent for believing the lie (distorted truth), renounce agreement with that lie, acknowledge the truth and accept The Truth and you are now free to live under The Truth umbrella in that area. No more leaning on a lie as your foundation. It's that simple. Then you must live your life by The Truth and stop your mind from wandering in the circles of thinking the old way, you must set your mind on your new found freedom.

I am sure I'm not finished seeing lies exposed in my own life. I'm not done revealing distorted truths, because they are often these little twists on The Truth and until God reveals them to you and until you have eyes to see and ears to hear.... you just may not be willing to accept your 'facts' are lies. God is so kind and generous to allow us to take one truth at a time, so that our lives become more stabilized on HIM versus giving it all to us at once and leaving us with our heads spinning. We can become free and strong in one area, live it out - time to adjust our living to Truth before revealing the next lie we are bound up in. Can you imagine if He exposed it all to us at once - how overwhelming to try to correct ALL our distorted truths at once.

Removing lies and building on His Truth in our lives IS the Christian walk. We don't just accept Christ as our Savior, repent of our sinful ways and go on. We must ask Him daily, seek Him daily to open our eyes to see anew and offer our ears to hear His voice. It takes a willing heart to walk it out. We can walk out our faith without seeking for more, but that is not living a victorious life. That's living a forgiven life - and believe me, it is not nearly as fun. I've been at the place where I wasn't seeking Truth daily or wanting to hear fresh from Him each day. I was still saved, still a Christian, but the fun of my Christian walk came when I sought Him daily - I desired to see Him and hear from Him daily. He became a daily part of my day, I still have room to grow in this, and I began to ask Him..... 'What do YOU want me to see in this situation?' I quit accessing the situation based on what my limited, human eyes could see and began asking for a glimpse of the picture from His side of the story. That has been a far more successful walk, less moments where I over step the situation and blurt out something I cannot take back. Seeking Him daily includes Him in the day and gives me a chance to choose life over and over and over and over. That's harder to do when I'm just walking out my forgiven life. How far do you want to go in your walk with Him? It is only limited by the limits we put on God, He doesn't keep us at arms length... we do that to Him. It is WAY more fun to keep Him in the daily moments of each day - He really makes life more fun than you could ever imagine. There's always more!