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The most exasperating statement that anyone can make is, \u201cIT doesn\u2019t matter,\u201d after you have poured out your heart to them about whatever issue that presently confronts you. The truth is, IT really doesn\u2019t matter simply because your issue is not matter \u2013 IT is a construct you\u2019ve made. Before you go fuming off in a huff about this, give me an opportunity to enlighten you. I\u2019m going to draw from the writings of Martin Buber in order to explain this.<\/p>\n
All of us are in relationship to someone. By reading this, I am in relationship to you. This I-YOU relationship is what we are all striving to create and maintain. All of us know who \u201cI\u201d is in every relationship; we also know who is \u201cYOU.\u201d YOU is another \u201cI.\u201d However, there is another relationship which came prior to I-YOU, it is I-IT.<\/p>\n
IT is something that \u201cI\u201d define or categorize at relevant to me and how \u201cI\u201d view myself. All \u201cITs\u201d are dependent on my knowledge and are bound to a date of when \u201cI\u201d defined and created them. Every IT is designed to enhance who I am, to display my glory, my wisdom, my agenda. IT\u2019s substance, girth and value is only what I declare IT to be. This is why IT doesn\u2019t matter, only YOU is matter, because YOU is the only thing created by God. <\/p>\n
How is you\u2019re relationship with God? Many find difficulty in answering this question simply because they\u2019ve made God into an IT. They\u2019ve moved Him up there, out there based on some date of an event in their life. They\u2019ve defined who God is, or isn\u2019t, and feel better not interacting with him simply because the memories they\u2019ve experienced, or have been told by other\u2019s memories, don\u2019t make for a very productive relationship.<\/p>\n
We all know that God is eternal. Eternal beings don\u2019t have memories. Memories are dates attached to time. If I ask you to remember your sixth birthday, you\u2019ll get IT. God doesn\u2019t recall IT, he only sees YOU, the eternal person who has always been in relationship with him.<\/p>\n
There is an old saying which states that a child before they are born, knows the entire universe; which they lose in their first breath, and feebly attempt to recapture over a life that already is eternal.<\/p>\n
Can you recall a moment with that someone special in your life when you lost all track of time? That is an eternal moment, the pinnacle of an I-YOU relationship. It is \u201cI\u201d looking into the face of \u201cYOU,\u201d attentive to YOU, responding to YOU, smelling YOU, feeling YOU, enjoying YOU not for what \u201cI\u201d get from an \u201cIT\u201d but for what \u201cI\u201d get to give to YOU. <\/p>\n
Relationships with ITs are not reciprocal. This is why no one wants to be IT. We run away from being IT as fast as we can. <\/p>\n
An \u201cI,\u201d however, wants YOU, needs YOU, desires YOU. YOU matter; YOU are the matter God made which an \u201cI\u201d longs for.<\/p>\n
IT doesn\u2019t matter to anyone. Just forget IT. YOU can, I know YOU can. How? I Am, YOU, eternal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The most exasperating statement that anyone can make is, \u201cIT doesn\u2019t matter,\u201d after you have poured out your heart to them about whatever issue that presently confronts you. The truth is, IT really doesn\u2019t matter simply because your issue is … Continue reading