I don't belong here...

When I was spiritually transformed 5 years ago, my views were also greatly changed. My creative side, my mothering, my teaching, my attitude, my likes, EVERYTHING changed! There was no denying Christ was now residing inside of me. 

 See my Spiritual Autobiography Comic here...

http://thelostsocklife.blogspot.com/2013/03/supertab-autobiographical-comic-of-my.html

This changing does not sit still, but grows bigger and stronger as life moves on. Each circumstance, good or bad, just proves validity to His supernatural presence and power more and more in my life. Since my young husband of ten year, Shannon Seaton, unexpectedly passed away 5 months ago, my perspective has changed immensely. I feel as though I am seeing the world we live in from a higher plane, through the eyes of Heaven. Suddenly, things that were so important to me before I let slip by. And things that I let slip by before have become my main desire. Each thing, activity, creation, friendship or even that I am involved in is weighed on a spiritual scale. Does this bring life to me or another person? Does this matter in the end? Does this only lead to vanity or selfish desires? Does this get in the way of His plan for me and my family?

My sight is on Heaven and towards things that last forever. 

I respect honest people more than ever and have a heightened sense of discernment in people's character.

Are my friendships bringing me down, am I lifting others up, or are they leading nowhere? 

I feel as though I have one foot in Heaven, my eternal home and one here on Earth, my temporary home. 

I feel as though my husband did not leave me here in grief, but went ahead of me to renew my hope.

I will meet him again soon, but until I do I have to make the most of this world. I have to fight to show the truth, be kind to those around me, and share His love through my own. 

I am here to love and save, not judge or condemn. 

I don't belong here, but I am here for a reason and will live in His Plan.

I will follow His path to the end. I started it with Him and will end it with Him.

He is the Alpha and Omega, the author and finisher of my life.

I will run this Race of Faith, 

"Surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith..." Hebrews 12:1-2

If we are truly and sincerely living in Christ, we should have senses that doesn't match up with those of this world. When I am living and walking closely with Christ (a daily practice and honest struggle), I feel like things of this world lose importance. The worldly things are temporary, but normal people greatly vale them (money, fame, luxury, etc.). These things do nothing for our joy or spirit and only temporarily bring us fading happiness. This walk is daily, taking in daily bread (His word), and intimate moments everyday to keep in constant communication with Our Leader. We cannot zone out friends!

 Our head should be in Heaven's clouds... not the worlds smoke and mirrors.

THIS WORLD BELONGS TO SATAN

1 John 5:19

"And we know that we are of God, and the whole world is under the power of the evil one."

I AM AN ALIEN HERE

"Dear friends, I warn you as "temporary residents and foreigners" to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls".

1 Peter 2:11

I AM A CITIZEN OF HEAVEN

"But our citizenship is in Heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior there, the Lord Jesus Christ:"

Philippians 3:20

I DO NOT LOVE THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD... they are temporary.

"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

“The eye is the lamp of the body. 
Matthew 6:19-24

art by Tabitha Seaton

SERVE ETERNITY or FALL FOR THE TEMPORARY

"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money"

Matthew 6:24

art by Tabitha Seaton

WHO ARE YOU HERE TO PLEASE... The Creator or His Creation?

"If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet, because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you" 

John 15:19

HIS WORD IS NOT POPULAR!

"I have given them Your word, and the world has hated them because [Your words] are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not pray that You should take them out of this world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world,"

John 17:14

This image below is the one I used for the above
"I don't belong here..." drawing. Awkward!

P.S.
Dear D.H, Brother in Christ.
I do not think of you as a sneaky snake, but a unfortunate frozen friend.
We will continue on the other side, when we get Home.
In His Love and Light,
Tabitha

If God is for Us...

 

Art by Tabitha Seaton

I have worked on commission for people needing art in the past and I still do from time to time. 

But, this is not my passion or the legacy I want to leave here. 

One client I worked for in the past confronted me about my art. They warned me not to be so open and free with my ideas. They fearfully thought & warned that people of the world could take advantage and steal my ideas and claim them for their own benefit. 

This may be true... and I thought about it for a few seconds.

But, I feel the Spirit took away all fear of that fairly quickly. 

I felt as though these ideas were from God, He gave them to me. So, it is my duty to unselfishly give them back to my neighbor to further His kingdom.

I should not hoard my ideas away and wait to be discovered...

Since I was saved, I have a new perspective on things, a more eternal outlook. 

I think that if I died tomorrow (which in my life I have found is very unpredictable),

what will matter most? 

Hide your ideas, His word, my light, my Spirit and possibly loose earthly treasure

or

Show my ideas, His word, my light, my Spirit and be promised eternal treasures?

HMMMMMMM... I prefer the second one.

If some person of this world were to "steal my ideas" or take my poems of faith and use them as their own, that would be hypocritical anyways. Why would a person steal God's words? These 2 things do not sit parallel together.  If a person stole something of mine that I made for Him, then they are stealing from God... therefor, He will judge. I will probably never know they did, but He will.

"If God is for Me, who can be against me?" 

He is my lawyer, He rules supreme, and It is His decision that will be the last.

So, knowing this, claiming it as truth, I am not afraid or worried about this 

AT ALL!

I am not selfish with my art that applies to my faith because in in reality, it is not mine... it is His. 

The whole purpose it to take what God gave me and pass it around to help others.

God's word is FILLED with this perspective as a Commandment!

If His desire for me is to be a fisher of men,

I using my art as my bait...

and I am not about to ask those fish for money!

  

People are always saying, "You should sell this" or "you forgot to sign this". 

I do not do work for the purpose of selling 

(although if somebody insists or initiates, I will consider). 

I really just create my faith art as a means of personally connecting myself (or others in turn) to Christ. Creating is my main way of worship. When I create, I get "in the zone". My mind disappears to another place where I lose track of my surroundings 

(time, stress, eating, others and myself really).

These are physical things that I escape. I move to the Spirit Realm. 

This is how we are told to worship Him...

John 4:24

"God is spirit, and His worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth."

Spirit is unseen, not of this world. So we must make our minds leave HERE to get THERE

so we can SEE HIM with the eyes of our hearts.

I am not looking for money or fame or anything of this world that will not last. 

 Isaiah 40:8 

"The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever."

If I do not want to get "paid" by this world for what I share, 

because the prize I receive here will wither when I leave.

 Matthew 6:19-21

 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. ²⁰ But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. ²¹ For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

 2 Corinthians 4:18

"So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." 

I encourage you  

to find your way of "worship".

What gets you "lost". 

What makes you forget the world?

If you don't know, pray for God to reveal it to you, or give you something.

When you find it, use it to glorify Him. 

Let Him steal your show!

Cause I know, "I don't want to gain the whole world and lose my soul". 

Listen to "Lose My Soul" by Toby Mac

here on YouTube VEVO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coHKdhAZ9hU&list=PL5A5A54FBA6C75816 

 see also

Also, Kari Jobe's "You are for Me" YouTube video/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbSMfL5LuSo