I once heard a story
About a widow
Whose husband
Was still alive
He hadn’t died
Like dead
But his mind
Stopped
Thinking
And he was paralyzed
Quiet
Numb
The widow
Wasn’t having none
Of her husband’s mind
Gone dead and quiet
She started asking
Questions
And he started to respond
Awakened
Something
In
Him
The more she asked
The more he answered
The more she asked
The more he transformed
The more she asked
The more he awakened
The more she asked
The more he became
The more she asked
The more he loved
The widow never widowed
And the husband became
Alive
His heart reawakened
His mind transformed
His soul forever changed
He never stayed the same
God searches the deep things of the heart. He is asking us, “Will we die and surrender everything to follow Him?” Sometimes we answer but we don’t transform or fully wake up. He continues asking and searching us for complete surrender. The more we respond, the more we start to see our lives transformed. Our desires turn to Him instead of to the dead things of our will, our understanding, and our strength. His love makes us alive and we are never the same.
“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” -Galatians 2:20
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