Walking the Passage: Commodity Trading

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Commodity Trading

Commodity Trading

There have been words stirring in my head this week that I honestly don't even fully understand ....

But there are aspects to it that have broken my heart and while I have attempted to write on several occasions I have failed miserably

How does one determine worth or value? So many factors come into place... While I might place great value on a specific attribute to another it might hold no worth.....

Yet the aspect that broke my heart was the commodity trading within the Body of Christ... But the picture I saw was not of one using commodities but of ones selling themselves as a commodity ....

I just simply don't have the ability to bring this forward but this I must say even if it is spit out incoherently ....

Be a son... Be a daughter.... To lessen oneself to a product that can be used is to not stand in ones full stature..... While all would agree with that statement ... We sell ourselves constantly ... For acceptance ... Love ... Approval ...

We sell ourselves as commodities to the highest bidder and it is sad....

You aren't worth something because you can sing, prophesy, help, teach, etc etc And if you gain worth because of those things you are setting yourself up for great sadness..... Huge fluctuations within the markets of men will cause great sorrow within your soul....

I have watched and seen as people rise in favor with man and with it self esteem ... I have seen that same self esteem dashed to pieces as man's favor ebbed away more than flowed....

Rather I would say be a Daniel... Who within a strange culture defined himself as God would have him do so..... Daniel would walk and minister in the courts of kings and then into obscurity he would venture .... I believe Daniel knew the secret that favor with our God is a stabilizing factor and it doesn't matter who else knows you if you are known by God ....

Rather I would have a day walking in the favor and authority of God than years of the same with man..... While we see both become necessary as Jesus grew in both.... Our Lord never sold himself as less than what He was and He defined Himself as belonging to the Father...

You aren't a commodity to sell ... You are a son... A daughter ... Who flows with the life of the Kingdom... Walking as such is a place of freedom .. You aren't defined by what you do... Your worth was set by God and it isn't something that fluctuates

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One of my Favorite Narnian Quotes...

“One word, Ma’am,” he said, coming back from the fire; limping because of the pain. “One word. All you’ve been saying is quite right, I shouldn’t wonder. I’m a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won’t deny any of what you said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things – trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that’s a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world that makes you real world hollow. That’s why I’m going to stand by the play-world. I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Narnia. So, thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we’re leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for the Overland.

A Brilliant Quote from Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,

but that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?"

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking

so that others won't feel unsure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It is not just in some of us; it is in every one.

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.