Thursday, April 19, 2007

spill the beans

Did any of you take classes on how to talk and share with people about your kids? Did any of you take classes or have someone explain to you how to tell people about your grandchildren? Did any of us have someone give us a three step plan to best communicating about our spouses or the ones we love dearly?
Of course not....what a stupid idea....the thought that someone would have to teach us how to talk about what we love is crazy. It is preposterous to think that we would not share with someone else about our own children, our grandchildren or our spouse. The idea that we could not communicate to someone else about our best friend or the ones we love is ludicrous.
Why is that? Because we have a real relationship with them. Because we have EXPERIENCED them. Because we KNOW them. Because they are on our hearts. You can't keep yourself from talking about what/who you love. You can't NOT talk about the one you are in love with. You can't help but describe the sweetness of the child and describe how you long to just bury your head in their neck. You can't stop yourself from sharing pictures and stories about the grandchildren that overwhelm your heart. You can't keep yourself from talking about that friend that means the world to you. You just can't NOT talk about what is on your heart.
It is the same for me and my relationship with Jesus. I can't NOT talk about Him, about my love for Him, my passion for Him. I can't keep myself from sharing with others the pictures He is showing me in His Word, the truth He reveals about Himself. I can't stop thinking about Him and therefore talking about what He speaks to my heart. No one has to teach me to talk about Him. No one has to explain to me how to talk about Him. And no one has to show me the right way to do it. It just spills out of me. He is the Love of my life and I can't not "spill the beans" when it comes to what He is doing in me. Every moment of life leads me back to thinking on Him and what He is teaching me. I find illustrations of Him in the way the grass is mowed and in how the rain falls. Why? because I can't NOT talk about what is written on my heart.
Why is it that so many find it so easy to talk about so many things other than Him? Why is it that He is not the first thought of our morning and the last at night? Why is He not at the center of every conversation? I know most people think I am strange and struggle with my intensity, but how is it that we are not all more intense? How is it that if we are in relationship with Him, have experienced Him and He is written on our hearts that He does not just pour out of us? How is it that we can KEEP from singing His praise, praying to Him, worshipping Him and talking about Him?
No one has to tell me talk about Jesus....I just do. He is on my heart....and spills out of me. Maybe that is weird....but quite honestly, I think it is more weird that we call ourselves Christ followers and yet spend more time talking about the things of the world than the things of Heaven.
How can I keep from singing......? I can't.....He is on my heart....He is what I love.....He is real and I have a relationship with Him....I have experienced Him....and I will not be silent. How can we be? If He is on your heart....SPILL the BEANS...don't hold it in. ALL FOR YOU

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