Every believer needs a place called home, we were not made to wonder from church to church, group to group. The DNA of family is in each of us, God has a certain people, tribe, group whatever you want to call it, for you to grow up in. Community allows us to see who we really are. God loves family, it is his idea. He never created us to to be out on our own, wondering around alone. We were made to thrive and grow in community. Even if you are not called to work in the church but outside the church walls, everyone needs a place to call home. Slow down and settle down. I know, I know. Some of you have been hurt by the place you called home, but you know it is a family. Just like in your natural family, you may fight with siblings or disagree with your parents most people usually heal and keep going. And then there those family where the parents may misuse or abuse you, in those moments we learn to love like God loves. We do not have to stay in the house, but we leave them letting them know we love them and we get planted in a family where we are affirmed, encouraged and stretched.
A family encourages you, corrects you, it fights for you, and loves you to life. It is not perfect but you feel like you belong there. The family does not let you settle, the family pushes you to grow, To do more, to heal to be all God has called you to be. Who is your spiritual family? they may meet in a big mega church, in a home or a small store front church. They may meet on wednesday or sunday or monday. Who are the people you have chosen to give parts of your life too? Who have you chosen to be accountable too? To say there are big brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers that i can submit too, who is that to you?
You will know you have found your family, becuase the message of the leaders will resonate with your passion and your calling and all God has called you too. You will feel alive there, not tired or weary. You will be encouraged and pushed to excel. Your family will help you mature and go from glory to glory to glory. Who is your family? Your family they will know your gifts and talents, sometimes even before you do and they will say " you can do it!" "this is you" you where made to soar, you were made for something more. Within the huge family of Christ, God has given smaller families which plug us into the heart of all God has for the big family .
Soon there will be a family reunion, and we will all be asked what we have brought to the meeting. We will meet with our lord and savior the head of our family. He will then say I gave a life, what did you do with it. Did you learn to love? did you learn to live a poured out life. All that begins with family, community and oneness. If you do not have a spiritual family, ask God to lead you! Remember he leads us into all truth!! He wants you to soar and grow.
It will not be always be easy, but change and growth always comes from friction and a little seed pushing through the ground, and sometimes that Ground comes in the form of people, that help water, nourish as well s push you forward till you are a full oak tree.
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