Are you full still, Littlestone?
Yes, my King, he replied smiling.
He had been realizing the fullness of God found in Christ Jesus was all about His love.
As written in Ephesians 3:16-21:
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,
may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people,
to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,
and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—
that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine,
according to his power that is at work within us,
to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations,
for ever and ever!
Amen.
He had such fullness of His great love by experience by God never left Littlestone for weeks…..
His love was covering him when he did not know there was a God, and is now and will ever be with and in Littlestone.
He could run his horse forever because of the joy of His God was overflowing… even…..
Through all sort of stuff…..He would hear, are you still full, Littlestone?
He would answer smiling, Yes, Sir.
So Littlestone learned beyond the Word, and the Word was made flesh in his heart….
Nothing can separate him from God’s great love as written in Philippians 3:26-39:
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness.
We do not know what we ought to pray for,
but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.
And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit,
because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him,
who have been called according to his purpose.
For those God foreknew
he also predestined
to be conformed to the image of his Son,
that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
And those he predestined,
he also called;
those he called,
he also justified;
those he justified,
he also glorified.
What, then, shall we say in response to these things?
If God is for us, who can be against us?
He who did not spare his own Son,
but gave him up for us all—how will he not also,
along with him, graciously give us all things?
Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen?
It is God who justifies.
Who then is the one who condemns?
No one.
Christ Jesus who died—
more than that,
who was raised to life—
is at the right hand of God
and is also interceding for us.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Shall trouble or hardship
or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”[j]
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
For I am convinced that neither death nor life,
neither angels nor demons,
neither the present nor the future,
nor any powers,
neither height nor depth,
nor anything else in all creation,
will be able to separate us from the love of God
that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
To go through stuff as he did recently from the cruel people and checked himself….
Littlestone still had joy.
Littlestone still felt full in the love of His God for him.
Littlestone still was in fellowship with His King minute by minute…..
How great is the love of God that He has in His people through Christ Jesus.
The reward of learning more of His God and King was greater joy and contentment than anything found in this world.
He praised God as Daniel did in Daniel 2: 20-23, 27-45:
During the night the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision. Then Daniel praised the God of heaven and said:
“Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever;
wisdom and power are his.
He changes times and seasons;
he deposes kings and raises up others.
He gives wisdom to the wise
and knowledge to the discerning.
He reveals deep and hidden things;
he knows what lies in darkness,
and light dwells with him.
I thank and praise you, God of my ancestors:
You have given me wisdom and power,
you have made known to me what we asked of you,
you have made known to us the dream of the king.”
Daniel replied, “No wise man, enchanter, magician or diviner can explain to the king the mystery he has asked about,
but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries.
He has shown King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in days to come.
Your dream and the visions that passed through your mind as you were lying in bed are these:
“As Your Majesty was lying there, your mind turned to things to come, and the revealer of mysteries showed you what is going to happen.
As for me, this mystery has been revealed to me, not because I have greater wisdom than anyone else alive,
but so that Your Majesty may know the interpretation and that you may understand what went through your mind.
“Your Majesty looked,
and there before you stood a large statue
an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance.
The head of the statue was made of pure gold,
its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze,
its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay.
While you were watching, a rock was cut out,
but not by human hands.
It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them.
Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver
and the gold were all broken to pieces
and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer.
The wind swept them away without leaving a trace.
But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.
“This was the dream,
and now we will interpret it to the king.
Your Majesty, you are the king of kings.
The God of heaven has given you dominion and power and might and glory;
in your hands he has placed all mankind
and the beasts of the field and the birds in the sky.
Wherever they live,
he has made you ruler over them all.
You are that head of gold.
“After you, another kingdom will arise,
inferior to yours.
Next, a third kingdom,
one of bronze, will rule over the whole earth.
Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom,
strong as iron—for iron breaks and smashes everything—
and as iron breaks things to pieces,
so it will crush and break all the others.
Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron,
so this will be a divided kingdom;
yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it,
even as you saw iron mixed with clay.
As the toes were partly iron and partly clay,
so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle.
And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay,
so the people will be a mixture
and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay.
“In the time of those kings,
the God of heaven will set up a kingdom
that will never be destroyed,
nor will it be left to another people.
It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end,
but it will itself endure forever.
This is the meaning of the vision
of the rock cut out of a mountain,
but not by human hands—
a rock that broke the iron,
the bronze,
the clay,
the silver and the gold to pieces.
“The great God has shown the king what will take place in the future.
The dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy.”
Littlestone thought His God and King does not dwell in the things made by man’s hands but by Him alone as written Isaiah 66:1-2:
This is what the Lord says:
“Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool.
Where is the house you will build for me?
Where will my resting place be?
Has not my hand made all these things,
and so they came into being?”
declares the Lord.
“These are the ones I look on with favor:
those who are humble and contrite in spirit,
and who tremble at my word.
Psalm 110:
The Lord says to my lord:[a]
“Sit at my right hand
until I make your enemies
a footstool for your feet.”
The Lord will extend your mighty scepter from Zion, saying,
“Rule in the midst of your enemies!”
Your troops will be willing
on your day of battle.
Arrayed in holy splendor,
your young men will come to you
like dew from the morning’s womb.[b]
The Lord has sworn
and will not change his mind:
You are a priest forever,
in the order of Melchizedek.”
The Lord is at your right hand[c];
he will crush kings on the day of his wrath.
He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead
and crushing the rulers of the whole earth.
He will drink from a brook along the way,[d]
and so he will lift his head high.
But our God who is mighty in battle delights Himself in the sons of men as written we are the temple of the living God…..Do you not know?.…..
For those who have bowed their knee to the King enthroned and have a heart full of love for Him alone has come to make His abode in their heart, their spirit…. As written in John 14:19-22, 23:
Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me.
Because I live, you also will live.
On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me.
The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”
Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching.
My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.
Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching.
These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
As the final thought as more is to come…..
Do you not know you are the temple of the living God?
Where is this scripture written? Do you know? Who is dwelling in your heart?
Do you not know our God never slumbers or sleeps. His eyes are watching and testing the sons of men….. Do you not know? He will hold accountable all who have been born on this earth, but for the blood of the Lamb to those who believe.
Do you not know,……….the Stone which was taken out of the mountain is marvelous in our eyes.
Praise be to the One who was and is and is to come.
Allelulia!
SELAH!