There's no shame in loving to be naked :)

So, what’s up with all the weirdness of the Old Testament and yet when someone today asks if Mary really was a virgin they get booted off the religious island? What’s up with Isaiah 20: 2-4 “At the same time spoke the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amos, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.”

Three years Isaiah was naked!

There are so many ways to translate the Bible. There are so many different glasses through which we can see, or not see, what’s before us. But do we ever take the time to cleanse our lens or maybe to put on a new lens? Who has time for true introspection today? Even the Greek Philosophers understood the necessity to go within and discover the truth of our being.

“An unexamined life isn’t worth living”, Plato.

And yet we go on drinking skim milk at best, never eating the fine filet that’s been prepared for us because we’re simply too busy! We must take the kids to this, work demands that, social events require our attendance at so-n-so, and of course there’s TV and all the entertainment options to occupy our minds. Who has time for the REAL QUESTIONS of life? Who has time for God’s sake to slow down and meditate a couple minutes of the day?

Who? Do you?

How much RESPONSIBILITY do we have for our very lives? Has God already decided how our life will be and therefore there’s little that we can do? Deeper yet, what is the role of the one who created ALL of life? Are we in constant communication with the ONE, as Jesus was? What IF the Creator of the universe has PLANS for us (why else would he create us?) and we’re failing because we’re not listening to his recommendations. We do have FREE WILL you know. We can choose NOT to listen, but how NOT COOL would that be?

What IF our early fathers developed a view of God whereby God was defined in terms of what a god ought to be to be God- according to them- then! Wow! Can you get the depth of that question? How long will we continue to interpret and live by the Bible based on the ASSUMPTIONS of those who lived 2,000+ years ago, with limited knowledge, and a lower level of consciousness. How much more could we understand if we’d lay the religious MAP aside and follow the COMPASS!

We were created for INTIMACY- not rule keeping! Are you THERE?

How naked are you before the One within, the Creator, Abba Father (without gender)?