I Say Unto You, ARISE!

I Say Unto You, Arise!   Taken from Jesus, Career Counselor, by Laurie Beth Jones.

Rise:  1 a: to assume an upright position especially from lying, kneeling, or sitting b: to get up from sleep or from one’s bed

2: to return from death

6: to appear above the horizon <the sun rises at six>

8: to extend above other objects <mountain peaks rose to the west>

13: to exert oneself to meet a challenge <rise to the occasion>

synonyms see spring

The word RISE is used more than one hundred sixty four times in the Bible.  It is the key foundational premise of Christianity.   It is in the essence of everything Jesus says, teaches, and does. 
 It is also considered a “feminine” word form in the original Hebrew.

Jesus told the man who was crippled, “Rise, take up your pallet and walk.”

And yet, do we rise?  Sure, we may get up in the morning and begin trudging through our day, but do we truly rise, into our fullness, our magnificence, our glory?

I will never forget the day I watched my three day old sorrel filly “Little Pistol” lying in the grass.  Her shell shaped nostrils were flaring in and out as her baby fluff mane caught the morning sun.  She had her head resting among dandelions as she stretched out in the sun.   As I stood there watching her out my picture window, something happened.

Suddenly both her little ears flew forward, and I could see her body draw itself together as if by giant puppet strings.  She poised for a moment, standing perfectly on point. Then she suddenly leapt into the air and with her feet barely touching the ground began to run full speed around the pasture, kicking  out sideways to the left and right, bucking and whinnying…fully and suddenly aware of what it meant to be a horse, alive. I tell people:  On the first day, she was born…but on the third day, she arose.

I am wondering if you have yet truly “Risen” into your giftedness.

Are you aware of the many gifts  God created in you, for you to express and enjoy?  Or are you trudging along in your career, unable even to make eye contact with your boss lest he or she notice and fire you?

Are you laboring in a parallel career, one which lets you get close enough to smell the artist’s oils and frame their paintings, but yet can’t yet make that reach into taking up the paint brush yourself?

Are you laboring in an uninspiring job, thinking that your lot in life is just to make enough to get by?

Then you need a jolt of faith, a spring in your step, because the God of you, in you, says “Arise!”

Arise today into your giftedness!

Laurie Beth

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