Coming Back the the Basics

 

In the midst of many conversations I had with Abba, I found myself thinking about what it actually looks like to reflect the Father. This is something I’ve thought about multiple times in the last few months and here I was again… and then, the obvious hit me, God is Love.

 

What does it look like to reflect love? 

Again, the obvious, 1 Corinthians 13,

 
The Do’s and Don’t’s of reflecting Abba:

DO:

(in TPT, Never stop believing the best for others)

(in TPT, Never takes failure as defeat, for it never gives up)

 

 

There were a couple things in this list that hit me pretty hard! 

 

1. Never take failure as defeat.

First, God doesn’t fail, so how does that make sense? For Him, it must be referring to the failure of others! So, I am not reflecting the Father if I’m taking on failure as defeat, whether that failure is mine or someone else’s. Whoa!

 

Well, dangit. How many conversations does that eliminate for me?? As pure as my actions may seem, how often is my motive to get my own way. 
Also, this is how God operates!!!! He never insists on His own way! He always invites us into a better way but never insists that we show up. His way is better, it’s higher, if we choose it, our life is so much more, and yet he never forces us into it. 
If I insists someone goes the way I want them to, regardless of how good my intentions are, how great my plan is, that’s not love. Wow! 

Now, is it a little ridiculous to reduce the reflection of the Creator of the Universe to a list of Do’s and Don’ts?? Perhaps. That is very possible.

But, honestly, I haven’t mastered the things on this list yet, so it seems like a pretty great place to start!