Nurturing Your Divine Nature

 

I heard this term through an online sermon from one of the only people I trust online to preach the truth. His name is Todd White and his mentor, who I love also is Dan Mohler, which I've shared before in my blogs. Anyway, Todd said at the very end of his sermon, we need to be nurturing our divine(Godly) nature. How do we nurture anything? With a plant we feed it, give it water, sunlight, warmth, fertilizer and a growing medium that is right for its root growth. If one of those variables are off, then the plant will suffer or even die. However, instead of a plant, the nature in us is more like a muscle. If a muscle isn't used it becomes atrophied, just ask the astronauts floating in space. If they don't use bands to pull them down and give their muscles resistance, they become so useless that they can't even walk when they get back to Earth. Our muscles function correctly because gravity is always pulling on us and our muscles resist that pull to keep us upright. 

With the divine nature in us, it needs exercise too. We are designed to shine and bring forth God's nature through us to the world. If we hide in pews and only stretch our divine muscle once a week then we become lazy. I knew of a person who had the gift of speaking in tongues. One day, they thought they weren't important enough to be doing that anymore so they quit. They continued down that path of doubt until a disease came and claimed their ability to cognitively function. Is the disease a direct result of the doubt, not sure but in cases where we don't exercise the divine muscle in us, it becomes ineffective. 

We must always move forward in our gifts, prayer, good works and our faith. We must never let doubt or fear or anything else stand between us and our relationship with God. 

Trials also stretch our divine muscle. Trials, whether mental or physical, always stress us and create a challenge against our ability to keep the divine nature in us going and nurtured. I've been feeling under the weather the last few days and I haven't been writing or praying or getting up in the night to talk to God. I've not let condemnation take over but I definitely miss those activities and I could tell my light wasn't shining as bright as it should. The posts I have been putting on here were written days ago. So, no matter, and I'm telling me this, what is going on, always try to connect, nurture and support the divine nature in you.

To God be the Glory!