I have a problem w/ Mother Theresa...
What? Are you kidding me. How can anyone have a problem with Mother Theresa. She is like the most amazing, selfless woman, and she accomplished great things on this earth!
Exactly! Who am I to take issue with her? How dare I even think about casting a criticism her way when I have not made a fraction of the impact she has, but...
I got an issue. I heard a story about her. The world loves this story. It uses this story to illustrate how much better than everyone else this woman truly was. Because the world likes selflessness. In others. It doesn't want to actually be selfless, but the world loves selflessness!
So here is the story in a nutshell. She had messed up feet. They were messed up because she continually wore shoes that were not the right size for her feet. Why? Why did she do this? Well because to get herself the correct shoe would mean that she used some of the valuable life giving resources at her disposal to fix something she could obviously live with. It might hurt her and it might be literally messing up the feet that God Himself created for her, but it was not eating up resources that could be used to feed one more starving child. Touching one more life with the love of God was worth more to her than her own comfort and health. And the world says WOW! That is amazing. That is inspiring. That is selfless!
I say. That is such crap!
John 14:13 & 14 in the Amplified Bible says this:
13. And I will do [I myself will grant] whatever you ask in My Name [as presenting all that I AM], so that the Father may be glorified and extolled in (through) the Son. 14.[Yes] I will grant [I Myself will do for you] whatever you shall ask in My Name [as presenting all that I AM].
I think that is pretty clear. I think it is almost too BIG to comprehend, but it is certainly worth trying! I am pretty sure it covers having a pair of shoes that don't cripple you! I believe that Mother Theresa was an amazing woman. I have an issue with her because I also believe she was stolen from. She was selfless, but she was so stinking wrong about the shoes! I believe that when she got to Heaven it totally didn't matter to her, but it matters to me and everyone else still here and still walking this life out.
He said "AS PRESENTING ALL THAT I AM." Being selfless is noble, but being ignorant of the truth is not. Do I need a Ferrari to preach the gospel in Thailand - NO! Do I even want one? Truthfully, NO! There really are things that are needed and there really are things that I simply want. Can I live without them. Yes. Is that what God wants? Well, answer me this? Will "the Father be glorified and extolled in (through) the Son" if am broke because things meant so little to me that I gave them all up to go and reach the lost? No.
The Father is not glorified by our extreme humility here on this earth when we interpret humility incorrectly. Being too poor to give what you have away is wrong. There I said it. Regardless of what is eating up your personal resources, if there is nothing to give away something is not going right. If you eat up your seed then everyone loses.
I continually ask God for seed. I have no other choice. I have no income outside of the seed that people sow into us. I am asking for an answer to that, but in the mean time He said He gives seed to the sower so I ask. I also ask for the basic things I need for my life. I even ask for the things I would really like to have and can live without. I ask for the dreams I have in my heart to come to pass. I ask for the Nations because He said I could. I ask "AS PRESENTING ALL THAT HE IS." Nothing less is acceptable.
James said we don't have because we don't ask or you don't get it because you ask with wrong purpose and evil selfish motives to spend it on your sensual desires. (James 4:2,3) That does not cover shoes that cripple! This is what I mean by ignorance and misinterpreted humility! Jesus DIED for us. For our Salvation, for our Healing and for our Provision. He meant it. If we don't ask "as presenting all that He is" then we do ask amiss, either for lack of asking or lack of understanding what He truly wants for us.
I ask for things that are NOT necessary because they please me, but it is because I know that Jesus loves me, that He wants my joy to be full and that He is big enough. He is not running out of resources even if people continually are. You should ask. You should learn from Mother Theresa and free yourself to ASK!
He loves you. He wants to be able to present ALL that He is to YOU. Be selfless in all the right ways and let Him.
Exactly! Who am I to take issue with her? How dare I even think about casting a criticism her way when I have not made a fraction of the impact she has, but...
I got an issue. I heard a story about her. The world loves this story. It uses this story to illustrate how much better than everyone else this woman truly was. Because the world likes selflessness. In others. It doesn't want to actually be selfless, but the world loves selflessness!
So here is the story in a nutshell. She had messed up feet. They were messed up because she continually wore shoes that were not the right size for her feet. Why? Why did she do this? Well because to get herself the correct shoe would mean that she used some of the valuable life giving resources at her disposal to fix something she could obviously live with. It might hurt her and it might be literally messing up the feet that God Himself created for her, but it was not eating up resources that could be used to feed one more starving child. Touching one more life with the love of God was worth more to her than her own comfort and health. And the world says WOW! That is amazing. That is inspiring. That is selfless!
I say. That is such crap!
John 14:13 & 14 in the Amplified Bible says this:
13. And I will do [I myself will grant] whatever you ask in My Name [as presenting all that I AM], so that the Father may be glorified and extolled in (through) the Son. 14.[Yes] I will grant [I Myself will do for you] whatever you shall ask in My Name [as presenting all that I AM].
I think that is pretty clear. I think it is almost too BIG to comprehend, but it is certainly worth trying! I am pretty sure it covers having a pair of shoes that don't cripple you! I believe that Mother Theresa was an amazing woman. I have an issue with her because I also believe she was stolen from. She was selfless, but she was so stinking wrong about the shoes! I believe that when she got to Heaven it totally didn't matter to her, but it matters to me and everyone else still here and still walking this life out.
He said "AS PRESENTING ALL THAT I AM." Being selfless is noble, but being ignorant of the truth is not. Do I need a Ferrari to preach the gospel in Thailand - NO! Do I even want one? Truthfully, NO! There really are things that are needed and there really are things that I simply want. Can I live without them. Yes. Is that what God wants? Well, answer me this? Will "the Father be glorified and extolled in (through) the Son" if am broke because things meant so little to me that I gave them all up to go and reach the lost? No.
The Father is not glorified by our extreme humility here on this earth when we interpret humility incorrectly. Being too poor to give what you have away is wrong. There I said it. Regardless of what is eating up your personal resources, if there is nothing to give away something is not going right. If you eat up your seed then everyone loses.
I continually ask God for seed. I have no other choice. I have no income outside of the seed that people sow into us. I am asking for an answer to that, but in the mean time He said He gives seed to the sower so I ask. I also ask for the basic things I need for my life. I even ask for the things I would really like to have and can live without. I ask for the dreams I have in my heart to come to pass. I ask for the Nations because He said I could. I ask "AS PRESENTING ALL THAT HE IS." Nothing less is acceptable.
James said we don't have because we don't ask or you don't get it because you ask with wrong purpose and evil selfish motives to spend it on your sensual desires. (James 4:2,3) That does not cover shoes that cripple! This is what I mean by ignorance and misinterpreted humility! Jesus DIED for us. For our Salvation, for our Healing and for our Provision. He meant it. If we don't ask "as presenting all that He is" then we do ask amiss, either for lack of asking or lack of understanding what He truly wants for us.
I ask for things that are NOT necessary because they please me, but it is because I know that Jesus loves me, that He wants my joy to be full and that He is big enough. He is not running out of resources even if people continually are. You should ask. You should learn from Mother Theresa and free yourself to ASK!
He loves you. He wants to be able to present ALL that He is to YOU. Be selfless in all the right ways and let Him.
posted by Troy and Grace Elliott at Tuesday, August 31, 2010
