There is so much to learn in Christ as we follow the leading of His Spirit ——-We can stay in the flesh with Him, but He gave us His Spirit to live in and by Him. If He is our Treasure, then we much rather live in and by the Spirit of God and not give any credence to our flesh, (carnal thinking). We can put off what we value as not important in what we are to have and be in Him today by and for the I AM or live in His purpose. Remember He is I AM NOW- Ever present, ever alive….. and so are we in Him! We can settle down on the mindset- I will go to heaven when I die because I believe in Jesus Christ……. But there is so much more in God’s intention for us this day – Jesus Christ came to raise us up in Him this day. It is a day in and day out type of life—– we must abide in Him and this is to know His Word, to know God is eternal life as written in John 17……… Let His word build His House within us, beloved. Let us not settle to enter into the ark of the Covenant by the Door. Let us go in and explore His reality with our hearts open and our minds flexible to receive the understanding of the Holy One. This is our call and inheritance. Come on, let us be humble and get down…… But we must leave what we think is important to grasp the truth of all dimensions found in our King.
Let us explore the vast unknown to us in our Great God. This is the choice to walk onto the road of the cross…. We must give up what ever piece of morsel- usually it is the mindset- if we let go, we will be less- but the truth is just the opposite of that carnal thinking. The Spirit of God is instructing us so we may expand our horizons of our heart and mind to allow room for the King of our heart. If the Lord stayed on the earth without walking in obedience to the cross, we would never have the opportunity to enter in to Heaven, His presence this day- Today, if we hear what the Spirit is saying…… Kingdom of God is within us, beloved, closer than our breath, is the I AM. As He said it was far better that He went the way of the cross. He was in the flesh and now He is in our spirit man by His Spirit. Our sorrow missing Him would be only like a night for in the morning would be our fullness of joy. So He didn’t lie, right….? His passing through death to Resurrected Life is hard to meditate on but the promised result is He is alive and forever more….. and beloved, so are we, if we hold fast and persevere. We must allow as Paul spoke- allow God to reveal His Son in me as he mentioned in Galatians.
We move down and up again and again- laying down to be filled up into greater measure in Him…..until the fullness of God. We gain the understanding of why He went to the cross and crucified His flesh, the Veil that was torn so we may enter in. However, the deeper we go into the Ark of the Testimony of Christ, the more acute is the way of the cross on our carnal nature or flesh. We know it is the only way to ascend to next glory in Him and proceed in greater measure and authority in His inner court. There we learn the secrets of a heart that forever has yearned for His creation, His Sons and daughters. The cross is never forgotten in our way to know His love…..Never, the cross and what our Christ did for us is center of this whole universe……. When the living creature told John to behold the Lion of the tribe of Judah who prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seals in the Book of Revelation 5:4…… The next verse in Revelation 5:6, And I looked and behold, in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though it had been slain, having seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth.
The King of glory was not shown but the Lamb who was slain before the foundation of the world. The only way to know the Lord in greater measure is by the cross….. I have been crucified………Now it is a done deal…… but the realization of the cross in each of our lives is by glory to glory…… If it were all at once…… I may be wrong, but I do think it would be to great for us to handle….. Our inner man, the Home of the Spirit of God, has to strengthen us so we may continually ascend into the fullness of God’s plan for His children.
Have you not wondered how the Lord was able to handle starting at the garden on that Thursday night —– through all the grueling questioning, the beatings, the suffering He went through plus carrying the cross up hill plus the nails, then to hang on it for a long time……. How did He do it…….? His Spirit Man was in the fullness of God……. He did not see the now, but the later. His Spirit Man was so full of God, that He could handle it without His flesh kicking in to save Him- by His word or His own strength…… He was so full of God in His Spirit that His flesh was so controlled by His Spirit that He became our Victor for all eternity. Now we are to learn how to be strengthened in His Fullness of His Spirit with in us so we may be found as He is.
How wonderful to be considered the children of God. In the Spirit of God’s working out of our ways( in the carnal nature) which has died with Him and allowing the increase of His conforming us into the image of the Son…… This is the place where we are handed the scepter of the King. There is no greater way to life and life abundant than to lie down for the love of their Creator. When we die, we live and live eternal. We are then raised up in large places into the embrace of our God in the view of the eyes that pierce every soul.
Let our Holy One pierce our souls now and know His eternal love this day than put this Great One off and suffer His absence for all eternity.
I remember years ago when I first read Galatians 2:20, I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live but Christ lives within me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me…….. What does this mean Lord? I wrote it down and read it every chance I got —— I then was taken into the journey of the morn with our Lord showing me His life in greater measure to get in me…… I let go, I let Him. I was not sure what was this all about and why….. I had not gone this way before, but I knew the love that burned in my heart from the eyes of the Man who loved me and I trusted Him more than any other…..because He was other than any other I had met. Then He allowed His life to grow in me……….So as we all continue on this journey of the morn with our King and Shepherd, we do ascend to glory to glory as He is increases greater measure within us to be revealed in the sons and daughters of God as He appears, we should be just like Him…. Right? That is the truth as it is written in the letter of 1 John….. Go check it out!
We must let go of what we think and believe is the end all….. because if we do not, we will find ourselves in our end and that will be all…… How boring when we can have all we can explore in Him, a life growing from glory to glory…….Yet, so many of us settle for what we see in the natural as our goal or our end all goal…… There is a conflict in God with that mind set….. for His intention is the Lord Jesus Christ will be all and in all…..as written in Colossians…… So let our Great Heavenly Father have His way in us…….. Just dive in to His neverending kindness and mercy and let’s die! Let’s die so we may live the ever growing flowing Life Eternal that is found in Jesus Christ.
I remember as a kid, I would want to dive from the highest diving board. I wanted to experience the flight down into the cool pretty blue water. I finally ascended all those steps up the ladder to the high board…… Then I gulped and looked down……. oh oh!I hesitated and looked back….. Couldn’t go back there was another anxious one ready to plunge into the depths of the pool……. Okay, I ran and jumped up to go down way deep into the pool. Wow! Was it worth it, absolutely! Did I do it again? Of course!
Well, so similar in a way is our walk in the Spirit of God and apprehending Him as He has apprehended us…… We let go and plunge in only to find the cool refreshing water of His love pouring forth…… Oh yes, it is hard on the flesh and our nature to let go and grab Him…… Is it worth it? Yes, absolutely. Will I go and jump off and let go of all reasoning and naysayers? Absolutely……. He is worth all of my effort to apprehend Him……Is there suffering involved……. Yes, of course…… The way I look at it….. There will be suffering in this natural life either following His Spirit off the high dive or not…… One way brings joy of His love and increases Him in us and the other is in vain…… for what is the gain to suffer and not be in Him and He in us and increasing the grace to conquer and become a victor in Him…… To me, it is a no brainer.
What we see is what we desire……Do we want to have eyes to see the King in all His beauty? Hey, I see His beauty in you and you and you…….. Yes, He is with in His children………….By His Spirit conforming us to the Son of God’s image……He who has the Son of God has life eternal as written in the Gospel of John…… Life eternal, beloved, there is no a Greater One or a greater life to behold and seek after.
Let our eyes seek after the prize of the high calling of God………….We behold what we do not see- so when all we do see is vanished, what we have longed for in our hearts will shine forth as glorious as the sun at noon day……. Keep watching and waiting!
That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead…( Philippians 3:10-11).
Remember the question the Lord God Almighty asked Adam and Eve in Genesis after they ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil? The Lord asked, who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil? ( Found in Genesis 3). There are two trees to live from…… which one are we eating this day? Tree of the knowledge of good and evil or the Tree of Life?
Ho ! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend money for what is not bread and your wages for what is does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in abundance.
Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you- the sure mercies of David. Indeed I have given him as a witness to the people, a leader and commander for the people. Surely you shall call a nation you do not know, and nations who do not know you shall run to you, because of the Lord your God, and the Holy One of Israel; for He has glorified you.
Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake His way, and the unrighteous man His thoughts; let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts higher than your thoughts.
For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing before you, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree; and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that will not be cut off, ( Isaiah 55).
Do you hear His whisper calling your name? Come all ! His smile is as wide as His arms that spread out on the cross through eternity representing our sins are gone as far as the east is to the west……… Come and live in Him…… A vast wide country with far distances….. His endless grace. Come and let us see His greatness which He has prepared before time was for us…. Come….. I bow before you to come and enjoy the Lord Jesus Christ. You will never be disappointed……. Always amazed and never surprised! You are never forgotten by Him. He is watching and waiting for you to turn and meet His unending gaze…… He loves you with a neverending love…… Please come and see and know His great love for you. Answer His call and leave it all behind….. for He has to come to you and now return to Him while it is called Day.
Do we really want to reject His grace for the alternative that is before all of mankind ? Let us eat from the Tree of Life and pursue the Lord in the time called grace that has been presented to us….. Let us not reject the One who is worthy of all praise and honor! The alternative was not meant for men to dwell- only the rebellious of the angels but men has joined the rebellion…… He has made a way to enter into Him. He is the Only WAY….. Do we dare reject it and not pay the price?
Selah!
