I know I am far too dependent on the opinion of Christian supervisors who train me to teach the Bible. I am not always as quick to listen to Jesus as I am to them. Teaching the Bible lesson with the "facts" supplied to me and minimal emotion is the rule I must follow but just how do you do that? When they show me how to flatten my words and delivery, I ask, "Is this right Lord?" And He tells me my passion for Him pleases Him. Makes it clear He feels the same way for me. Tells me I am His bride. Tells me if He shows me His glory and I am not passionately totally in love with Him then I missed the showing. Because when you get a glimpse it is intoxicatingly lovely. Thank you Jesus.
I read where the daughter of Christian parents, says she saw them believing and teaching Jesus, but never saw them them loving Him. I don't want to hide my love for Him from anyone, although really I know that can get you in trouble.
In my first reading of the day, the day I have to give my new and improved lesson, He shows me this from Ann Voskamp's blog,
A Holy Experience:And that woman, she has no pitcher but she has passion, the kind no Pharisee could ever understand and she has no water but she has her heart.
She pours it out. She pours it out.
And with no towel but tresses, no handcloth but her hair, she does the unthinkable, the scorned and the disgraced. When all Jewish women were required to keep their hair done up, less they be seen as shameful and loose, she lets her locks down.
Rabbis, men of the law, said that if a woman loosed her hair in public, let her hair flow mingled down, it was grounds for divorce. Grounds to be shamed and sent away. But there is a love far greater than law.
That Luke woman, she let her hair loose, lets her love loose and she looks loose and there are always Michaels who will scorn David’s dancing before the ark — but Jesus lets her kiss Him. It seems shocking, appalling, too intimate, and this kataphileo, these kisses, this is the same word, katephileo, of the father kissing the prodigal son, a symbolic picture of God embracing, the father falling on the neck of his child and kissing, and doesn’t the whole realm of earth need to be seized with a power of a great affection, “for we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.” (Eph. 5:30). http://www.aholyexperience.com/Let us never forget, there is a love far greater than law.
