"open wide your hearts also..."
NOW is the time...
Verse 12 speaks of restricting ourselves.. Sometimes we restrict ourselves so that we cannot experience the fullness of God.
And, when we talk of fullness of God, really experiencing God - it's not all pretty. Paul describes it: beatings, hunger, sleeplessness- but also purity, patience, genuine love...
It's this amazing place where it doesn't really make sense. verses 8b on..
"We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; 9 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and yet not killed; 10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything."
People think we're suffering, dying - but really we're not. We may seem to have nothing - but yet we really have everything. It's a completely different way of seeing life, thinking about life, living life..
Now is the time.. so open wide your hearts. Don't restrict what God is desiring to do in your life...
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