I'm pro-life (Don't hurt me)
The other day I was feeling especially bothered by the politically correct atmosphere at work, close on the heels of one co-worker’s rant about how "anti-choice" people should behave. I was praying to God about my passion for the unborn. I feel like I have to shut up there or risk losing a career. I feel God wants me there, yet to be there I have to zip it. I don’t think God put this passion in me for no reason. But where is it to be directed? I don’t want to say nothing. Nor do I want to return to the unthinking zeal of my youth where I blah blah blah all the time in a thoughtless manner.
Met up with someone whom I know through CPC, mainly. Her work is related to where I work and we ended up talking for a long time about our fear and frustrations. That alone was such a blessing, just to talk to someone who understands. We hatched a plan of starting an email group of others like us, working in the social service sector and feeling oppressed at times.While we were talking, I felt like I heard the HS say to look at how Jesus related to women. So I went through Matthew, to start and just looked at time he spent interacting with women. I read about the Canaanite woman - the one where Jesus said it's not right to take the children's bread and give it to their dogs. I ended up with a totally new understanding.
Jesus gave up his Godness to take human form. He had to discern His father's voice as we do - although he was better at it, I'm sure. Still, I have the sense that at the beginning of that interaction, he was not yet sure of the Father's leading. In other places where people were being pushed away from Jesus or rebuked (the children, the woman who anointed him) he had a very swift reaction - No! Here, he doesn't say yes or no. Just says that he was sent to the lost sheep of Israel. Almost like he's thinking it through - this is what I'm supposed to do, and it doesn't fit with this situation.
So he engages her. Explains to her why he can't help. And in her reply, he seems to get what the Father is doing. God seems to speak to him in the act of engaging.
What do I get from this? Just that I don't have all the answers now, but God will speak to me as I engage. I have a mandate from God that in some ways seems at odds with where he is leading me. It is as I walk it out that I will know what to say, when to say it.
Met up with someone whom I know through CPC, mainly. Her work is related to where I work and we ended up talking for a long time about our fear and frustrations. That alone was such a blessing, just to talk to someone who understands. We hatched a plan of starting an email group of others like us, working in the social service sector and feeling oppressed at times.While we were talking, I felt like I heard the HS say to look at how Jesus related to women. So I went through Matthew, to start and just looked at time he spent interacting with women. I read about the Canaanite woman - the one where Jesus said it's not right to take the children's bread and give it to their dogs. I ended up with a totally new understanding.
Jesus gave up his Godness to take human form. He had to discern His father's voice as we do - although he was better at it, I'm sure. Still, I have the sense that at the beginning of that interaction, he was not yet sure of the Father's leading. In other places where people were being pushed away from Jesus or rebuked (the children, the woman who anointed him) he had a very swift reaction - No! Here, he doesn't say yes or no. Just says that he was sent to the lost sheep of Israel. Almost like he's thinking it through - this is what I'm supposed to do, and it doesn't fit with this situation.
So he engages her. Explains to her why he can't help. And in her reply, he seems to get what the Father is doing. God seems to speak to him in the act of engaging.
What do I get from this? Just that I don't have all the answers now, but God will speak to me as I engage. I have a mandate from God that in some ways seems at odds with where he is leading me. It is as I walk it out that I will know what to say, when to say it.


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