Cast down or cast out

Pa here, thinking things over.....

I was having trouble with this laminate floor thing. I'm helping someone and I came home last night disturbed about the circumstances. Things are a little goofy, let's say, and I really don't want to be helping goofy get goofier. So I was disturbed about it and was asking God about it.

The Holy Spirit, who will teach all things if you ask, took me to the picture in Revelation where the 24 elders are casting their crowns down before the Lamb. They take their mantles, their callings, their authority and willingly cast it down before the Lord. They seek to serve Him, not their own lives and ministries. If you think about it, it's a rather radical picture. Usually we think we get a mantle and walk in it all the time, but this picture says you should take it off and cast it down before Christ every now and then.

Then the Spirit had me consider satan, who would not cast his crown down before God and was therefore cast out of heaven. Then I started thinking of all the things that get cast out, such as demons. As soon as the Kingdom of God comes upon them they are cast out, just like their father.

So God said to me to think about taking off my crown and casting it before Jesus and to serve Him by the laying of laminate flooring in a place I did not want to serve. He reminded me that you can judge the level of your servant heart by being in a place where you do not want to serve. Your heart at that moment indicates the true level of your maturity.

I don't really want to help with this floor but I now know who I am serving and it makes it way easier. I talked this over with Ma and she said Jesus does not want us to serve with a critical spirit, finding fault with the situation we are serving in. That's what I was doing, finding fault with the situation. Ma said that Jesus acts to remove us from a place of serving with a critical spirit into a place of serving with a glad heart. And it's all about knowing that we are serving Him.

I take off my crown today and cast it at His feet. Look out, I'm ready to lay down some floor.