05/16/2024
WHAT GOD DID TO ME: In my devotion yesterday. God told me to get up and walk around my lovely home and look at everything. As I took it all in I was all smiles. I'm an awesome decorator and I did great this time around. He had taken me and my husband a long way. But then He said:
GOD: NONE OF THIS WILL GO TO THE GRAVE WITH YOU! This could all be gone in a snap of the finger. Don't ever be attached to anything I give you on this earth because this is all temporary. This is NOT your home. Your home is here with me. Be very grateful for what you have but detach yourself from it all now. Don't plant deep roots anywhere. For when I say move to here, or go to there it is for work in my Kingdom, and you must move quickly and do as I say if you both are to be my mouth, hands, and my feet. Because I never tarry. lag. or look behind so neither should you. If you sacrifice your lives to me and focus on my Kingdom, I will build your 'house' on this earth and your mansions here in heaven where your treasures will be stored for when you get here.
ME: Father, everything you have given to us we will give them back to you by dedicating it all as service to your Kingdom. Even my two dogs... EVERYTHING! Consider it all yours... 100%. We have a deal!
I began to cry. Those were sobering words. But I did as He said. I looked around at everything we have and have looooved, then slowly, I began to disconnect from it all. Suddenly, I feel a weight come off my shoulders. For no longer do I have a need or want for anything, only a need and a desire to serve him and win souls for Him. I just love my Heavenly Father so much because He loved me first and He shows it.
It is impossible to spend time in God's presence in conversations and leave the same way before you went in to Him. For his words are transforming, character-building, identity-defining, and life-breathing. That was only about a 2-minute conversation, but just like that, God stripped away my life-long superficial layer of being materialistic away from me. I am being made whole.