His LovingKindness
Jesus Is Relationship, not religion
“Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to Me. Get away with Me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with Me and work with Me - Watch how I do it. Learn the Unforced Rhythms of Grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with Me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.” Matthew 11:28-30 (The Message)
HisLovingKindness.com is a collection of original songs of Belovedness and Spiritual Freedom in Christ ~ Songs His Spirit gave me in Solitude with Him
Jesus, Your Unconditional Love and Unforced Rhythms of Grace
have set me Free from religious conditions.
I don't need to seek approval outside of me, when Your Spirit Lives Inside of me.
You are in Me
and I'm in You
I need do nothing,
and I am Loved.
So because Your Lovingkindness
is better than life,
my lips shall praise You.
psalm 63:3
I don't need to seek approval outside of me,
When Christ Lives Inside of Me!
What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Mark 8:36
One of the ways that a soul can become confused, compromised, and oppressed, is through seeking approval and belonging in the world of legalistic religion. Trying to gain a sense of belonging there is costly, and means swapping your soul's peace in God, for guilt laden duty and performance - putting on a false outer image to meet the man made religious conditions that are expected. The fear of not being good enough or fitting in, can rob the soul of all peace and confidence. This is a very lonely place, even though the room is filled with people.
BUT, Knowing Who Jesus Truly Is, listening only to His Voice, and Resting in His Spirit means that I am truly never alone... and that means that I don't need to fit in - to any world. His Unworldly Spirit is the Validation and Confidence my soul needs, seeks and now has - Already and Always Given to me deep within my heart, where it never can be taken away.
We never have to perform for Jesus to receive His Eternal Love and Acceptance. It is Unconditionally Given. He calls us in such gentle whispers that only our souls can hear, but the world cannot.
When we come away with Him, and leave the world behind to truly seek God' Spirit, we come to deeply remember that God is Love, and that we are Of His Love and Of His Spirit. This is where we Belong. We recognize Jesus' Unconditional Love, Freedom, Peace, Completeness, and Simplicity as the Timeless Treasures our souls have always been searching for, but also have always Known, deep down Inside.
When we Know Who Jesus Truly Is, nothing can keep us from Coming to Him and Being in His Love - not even man's religiosity about Jesus. It may be about Him, but it is not of Him. Religion complicates, manipulates and obscures the essential, core message of Christ's Unconditional Love - And how it is the very Key to completely freeing our souls from the crushing conditions of this world - many of which are religious conditions.
“What sorrow awaits you experts in religious law! For you remove the key to knowledge from the people. You don’t enter the Kingdom yourselves, and you prevent others from entering.” Luke 11:52
Leave them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit” Matthew 15:14
Religion is man's attempt to understand, and proclaim God's truth and order, without Knowing God's Spirit of Love - imposing their conditions for "right standing" with God upon people. Religion uses guilt inducing tactics to force "quick fix" external results - creating a Pharisaical culture, (motivated by duty, obligation and appearance) in which only the religiously fit seem to survive. I don't want that loveless world of survival of the fittest. I want Christ's Reality of Eternal Love where the last will be first, and Belovedness is the motivation.
When we Come Away to Rest in His Unconditional Love, the heavy weight of religious and worldly perfectionism begins to fall away and we are restored to the child-like confidence of knowing that we are worthy of Being Loved just as we are, because He Loves us, and because we are His Children. Knowing that we are Loved releases us, so that we can Freely Breathe In God's Spirit. He truly takes us on an inner journey that transforms our hearts and minds. And we come to Know the Heart and Mind of God more and more, because The Spirit is living and working inside of us. Religion fails to bring about what Relationship so effortlessly reveals. Who can desire religion, when they have Christ's Love!
When your heart and mind are quiet,
you can hear Me inviting you to draw near.
Coming close to Me requires no great effort on your part;
it is more like ceasing to resist the magnetic pull of My Love.
Open yourself to My loving Presence, so that I may fill you with My fullness.
I want you to experience how wide and long and high and deep is My Love for you,
so that you can know My Love that surpasses knowledge.
This vast ocean of Love cannot be measured or explained,
but it can be experienced.
"Jesus Calling" Sarah Young (Revelation 22:17; John 6:37; Ephesians 3:16-19)
Abiding takes care of obeying.
Contemplating and internalizing Christ's Grace and Unconditional Love fulfills the Law.
And fulfillment in Love, takes care of sacrifice.
If we try to obey outside of Abiding - it's forced. If we try to follow the Law outside of Grace and Love - it's forced. And if we try to sacrifice anything outside of Living in Love – it is forced.
When something is forced, it cannot be authentic.
Then the person who is living under this religious belief of force, blindly projects that belief onto God and others - building up more and more, the false belief that God is a god of force.
God is Love, and Perfect Love casts out fear.
The way of force is the world's way, and religion's way - not Christ's way. Jesus is Love, and He gives us a bridge so that we can learn to trust His Love, more and more. The more we let His Love in, the more Perfect Love can cast out our fear. And the more Perfect Love casts out fear, the more we Want to let His Love in.
You are the journey's Bridge and You are the journey's End.
There is nothing to fear when I am with You.
You show me Paradise here Within.
You show me Paradise that Is, and Is to Come.
Pure Radiance that shines on all things;
no shadow can remain.
So- You gave Yourself to me as a Bridge,
to help me learn to See through Your Eyes;
to help me release all my shadows
through Perfect Love's unforced rhythms of grace.
I am glad now, to hold onto nothing but You.
And join, even here,
the angel's song -
singing of Perfect Love in Your Presence ~
Inside and Out, Now and Eternally...
We Are One.
You in me, and I in You.
As I rest and move in Christ's Unforced Rhythms of Grace,
I am returned to who I originally am in God.
And Here, in Christ's Original Innocence,
I am enough, exactly as I am ~
because I was Created this way ~ Within and as part of Christ.
If I do not see myself this way,
then I am not seeing myself as God sees me.
Jesus, Your grace is always more than enough for me.
For when I am weak, then I am strong.
(excerpts from 2 Corinthians 9-11)
Overcoming my lifelong battle with religious shaming ~
Living in Christ's Freedom on the other side.
My Identity in Christ is not attached to the [religious] world. Legalistic conditions and shaming mind games have no power over me anymore. This temple built in Christ is Rising through the power of Jesus' unworldly Wisdom and Love living inside of me. This is Who He Is, and in His Truth, this is Who I am.
In Truth, those who try to oppress others through religious shaming,
only succeed in shaming and oppressing themselves.
"You shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free." John 8:32