my fences

2 corinthians 6:11-13

Dear, dear Corinthians, I can’t tell you how much I long for you to enter this wide-open, spacious life. We didn’t fence you in. The smallness you feel comes from within you. Your lives aren’t small, but you’re living them in a small way. I’m speaking as plainly as I can and with great affection. Open up your lives. Live openly and expansively!

ok. i’ve got fences. i’m sure we all do, but that’s no excuse. the truth is that i’ve got lists of all the things that YOU can’t do, and i ignore the fact that YOU say that all things are possible with YOU. it’s like i took YOUR statement and decided that YOU were lying to make YOUR self look better. i am so so so so wrong.

i was listening to a song on saturday that i haven’t heard since high school. there’s this one part in it where joe from the insyderz says freedom comes from faith in what you believe. so i’ve heard that at least a hundred times, but it didn’t really sink in until i read this plea from paul to the church in corinth to be free.  it’s like i’ve believed these things, and some of them are wrong, but even the ones that are true.  like on some level i believe that YOU can do all things.  i just don’t have faith that YOU’RE going to.  i’m not free.  i’m fenced.  i don’t just want to have faith that YOU saved me.  i want to have faith that YOU are saving me.  that YOU are still alive.  that YOU are able.

what is life like without fences?

freedom comes from faith in what i believe.