Letters From The Wild – One (By The Traveller)
This is a great article from an amazing woman I am priviledged to know so closely. Known simply as “The Traveller”, she is one person who inspires me and I will be featuring her articles every now and again. This is the first article in a series tagged as “Letters From The Wild”. It was written in 2007 and was featured on my old blog. I just thought I would share this with you and I hope it blesses you as it has blessed me.
One
I love God. That’s an undeniable reality.
I guess at a point in my life, it just got stamped in my heart and mind that without God, we are all not worth much, not worth anything in fact. Besides that, I’ve experienced God’s love in a way that makes that passage, “we love Him because He first loved us” – 1 John 4v19 – become reality to me.
God has been too good to me. 
He has given me everything…what more can I possibly ask for? He has given me His all, all His love, all His mercy, His forgiveness, His grace…in the face of my pathetic human nature.
For me, this year has been one in which my ‘spirituality’ has come unbundled. I seem to be at war against religiosity in all its forms, I have a deep seated impatience for shallowness but an intense attraction to genuineness in loving God. Really tough vibes to feel considering my long standing preoccupation with religion…
I basically started to feel deep in my heart that I was so far from God’s ideal, that everything I thought was the ultimate representation of being right before God was in fact a very hollow offering…
In the face of these experiences, what came straight at me was that God loves me intensely…in ways I can’t successfully describe in words. All He wants from me is a true heart, not acting. He sees through all the routine and it’s heartbreaking for Him. You either love me or you love the game you’re playing in front of the crowds watching you. You either love me or you love your leaders who you’re working so hard to please.
So I made a decision, damn everything. I’m running into His arms because He’s the One who made me for Him. It’s in Him that I live, that I move and that I have my being. It’s time to return this extravagant love…in a way that is exclusive to Him. My eyes fixated to Him, looking at Him alone, refusing to allow the elements to sweep me away in this religious rat race.
In the final analysis, it’s God and me…that’s all that counts.
And from then on, everything I do flows straight from me to Him.
- The Traveller
Read letter two from The Traveller here
Word of the day…
Hebrews 12 v 2 – Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
