Lessons to be learned as a Steward

I read this morning that the most spiritual thing I can do each day is "to chose".  Silly me, I have been thinking it is waking up each morning and shouting "Fear Not!"  This command is given 365 times in the Scriptures  - one for every day.  Maybe the two go together because the Steward is faced with choices about a number of things that can produce fear.

Can I really trust the promises?  Can I truly build a life on the promises and not on what my 5 physical senses report?  Is it naive" to take God at His Word?  We have been given the freedom to chose since the Garden, but which choice will limit my freedom and which choice gives me freedom?  Do not be afraid to chose the Word, claims the Steward, because it will  always lead into a life of freedom.  Life is so upside down in the kingdom of heaven in which the Steward consciously lives.  Die to gain life.  Give to receive. Let go to find satisfaction.

Oswald Chambers reports that God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up.  He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having viz. life with Himself.  This is what I have had to do this last week.  Give up my agenda, my time table, my perspective and accept that even though it seemed that I was being a responsible steward, I had overstepped my boundaries.  I should have known that frustration, confusion, and growing resentment meant I was not operating in "peace".  And peace is what the Steward experiences when in line with the Master's will.  I was trying to make things happen because I am good at that in my natural self.  Unfortunately, the Master is not interested in my natural self, but in my developing spiritual self.

This is what I wrote last night.
I am a strange woman.
     alien to the earth
My permanent residence is in the dimension
     known as heaven
Yet, I have been located in terra firma for
 68 years and assigned to the region of Minnesota.


I am learning to operate from my eternal spirit
given to me by my Father during re-birth.
I am developing the spirit organs of hearing,
sight, speaking with the tongues of my homeland 
and responsive to the feelings and touch of holiness.
I am being changed by the Master Holy Spirit
to match the Christos who is YHWH enfleshed.
His glory and character are my inheritance along
with all the blessings found in heaven - even now
while earth bound.
New birth is already accomplished in my spirit in which
 is lodged all the powers and authorities of the Master.
The change points are in my soul and body as they 
come under the rule of the  Word and Spirit.  
I am known in heaven and earth as "a Father's Joy"
because I am named Gail.  My assignment as such
is Steward of the Blessing House.