Freely

How free are you? I would like for you to think about how free you are to really allow God to work in your life. How freely the knowledge of God and understanding of God can come to you. How open are you to really understanding what God is offering to you on a daily basis? How ready and free is your heart to recieve from God? The more readily, free, and willing we are to understand the more we understand. Jesus told his disciples this about being open and free:

The disciples came up and asked, "Why do you tell stories?"
He replied, "You've been given insight into God's kingdom. You know how it works. Not everybody has this gift, this insight; it hasn't been given to them. Whenever someone has a ready heart for this, the insights and understandings flow freely. But if there is no readiness, any trace of receptivity soon disappears. That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it. I don't want Isaiah's forecast repeated all over again:

Your ears are open but you don't hear a thing.

Your eyes are awake but you don't see a thing.

The people are blockheads!

They stick their fingers in their ears so they won't have to listen;

They screw their eyes shut so they won't have to look,

so they won't have to deal with me face-to-face and let me heal them.

Matthew 13:10-12

Do the understandings of God flow freely for you? How ready are you to recieve what comes from God? Be ready today - God is always telling stories for us to learn from. God is always there showing us so that we may have insight. There is a saying that goes, "When the student is ready the teacher will show up." You see the teacher does not come to you first and demand that you learn. No, you must be willing to learn and then, as if out of no where, the teacher shows up and everything becomes a learning experience. It is then that the teacher can actually speak into your life and understanding can happen. Otherwise you are like people who are awaker with their eyes open, but they do not see. They look and appear like they are listening, but the ears are really deaf. We have all had this experience - someone appearing as though they heard and understood, but walked away and did not understand a thing that was said or taught. It is not that the teacher, or you, did not do their best - it is that the student was not ready.

Today be ready. Freely receive the teaching of God. Open your heart and your mind. Allow everything this day to teach you something about who you are and who God is. Be a student who want to know, whats to hear, and want to learn. Do not dismiss anything today. Look for God and the teaching of God in each story you encounter today. God is there, be a student that is ready.

Namaste'