My favorite song is Me and God by Ralph Stanley.
I listen to this song multiple times daily and often on repeat. As I type this, it is playing in the background.
Mr. Stanley sings of his beautiful relationship with the Lord.
They are a team who are in partnership.
They talk day and night working things out.
He leans on, depends on, reveres God as His Father and friend.
He is committed to and protective of their relationship.
Even though He recognizes His sovereignty, He refers to the two of them as two peas in a pod.
I feel like I have finally arrived at the point in which I am more than just a servant of the Lord who MUST obey, but a friend, a daughter.
I've moved beyond trying to follow rules and trying to do everything He wants to becoming one with Him.
No longer white knuckling life.
My wants and desires have dissipated. I'm just seeking His.
If I do not have, I focus on what I do. If I don't have it, then I simply don't need it.
I am no longer fighting, resisting, turning on God.
Not only have I surrendered, I have fell in love again. I have returned to my first love.
Reflecting on this now, this was my prayer. Thank you, Jesus, for returning me to you.
Was this the point of this whole journey- to fall in love with Jesus and let that love wash me over and cleanse me? Was that His method of consecration?
All I know is that my soul is at peace, my heart is open and softened to God.
I feel in this moment this overwhelming calm that gives me a sense that my entire being rest in Him.
Oh, to be a friend of God.
I am grateful that I have arrived at this place.
**Revelation**
To think when I surrendered to lay down the flesh and denied it, I was no longer hostile to God because the flesh is hostile to God, and it was no longer ruling.
Because the spirit is ruling, it's desire is to be in sweet communion with the Lord.
The love I now experience with the Lord is not the love of the world but of Him.
Now that I have entered into true love, I am ready to meet the man He has for me so that I may love Him as God intended, with
no resistance
an open and soft heart
on the same team
talking day and night working things out.
respecting him as husband and friend.
committing to and protective of our relationship.
Recognizing His authority as the Head
with the ultimate goal of becoming two peas in a pod.
From Jesus:
You caught the lesson, Jennifer. You are ready. Time for you to go home.
Question of the day
When you evaluate your relationship with God, would you say you are two peas in a pod?
If not, why not?
Bring that before the Lord and work through it together with Him.
Me and God lyrics
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Scripture
Galatians 2:19-21
What actually took place is this: I tried keeping rules and working my head off to please God, and it didn’t work. So I quit being a “law man” so that I could be God’s man. Christ’s life showed me how, and enabled me to do it. I identified myself completely with him. Indeed, I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not “mine,” but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I am not going to go back on that.
21 Is it not clear to you that to go back to that old rule-keeping, peer-pleasing religion would be an abandonment of everything personal and free in my relationship with God? I refuse to do that, to repudiate God’s grace. If a living relationship with God could come by rule-keeping, then Christ died unnecessarily.
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