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"28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” (Matt 11:30).
When Jesus invites us to come to Him and unburden ourselves of all our sins, sickness and worthless negative emotional baggages of our past, He is calling us with an intention to share the completed work of redemption and rest. Those who believe the finished work of Christ will not try to work to please God, but they find the promises of Jesus and they will place their hands on it, will lift it up towards heaven and will say "Lord, I believe." Infact, this is what really pleases God. This will bring true rest in the souls of those who believe in their heart the word of faith and say it through their mouth (Rom 10:8, 10). Rest comes in the believer's soul tangibly because God in His pleasure always will choose to move and bring salvation to those who believe in His words and stand on it with the wings of faith. I say wings of faith because faith indeed is our spiritual wings. When we believe His promises firmly in our heart, the wind of the Holy Spirit will blow from heaven upon our wings of faith and as a result will lift us up in to the higher spiritual dimension of victorious life in the spirit (1 John 5:4).
Those who will come to Jesus and experience God's rest in their lives will slowly share the yoke of Jesus which is His character of purity. For example the yoke of Jesus is to think others better than ourselves, be gentle when the other person whom we deal with is full of pride and be loving to some one even when they want to use us to fulfill their own agendas.
The yoke of Jesus is the foreordained cross that God has planned for us individually inorder to mould us in to His very own character. Jesus always says to His true disciples, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me." (Matt 16:24). God in His love towards us, wants us all to be conformed in to His character of selfless love and purity. And Jesus has demonstarted as a man that we can indeed be like God in Character if we choose to deny ourselves and follow God's will for our lives. This is truly God-life of heaven lived and demonstrated on earth for the glory of our Father in Heaven. To deny ourselves is to not walk by our good feelings of our soul and to take up our cross is to walk by the rule of unconditional love in the midst of mockery, hate and trickery. So faith works by love towards others and God in the midst of facing individually difficult circumstances (Gal 5:6). When we are doing these things, we are FOLLOWING JESUS truly and without fail we will GLORIFY GOD through our lives.
God has a custom designed cross situation of difficulty made individually for us so that we can choose to deny our mind, emotion and will voluntarily in to His hand by faith daily and be transformed in to His image for the rest of eternity ahead of us (Luke 9:23). If you really want to glorify God as His dear child, embrace the cross and reject yourself. Before you can realise, you will soon end up as a mature son or daughter of God, moulded exactly in His image and character (Rom 8:29-30).
May the wings of faith uphold you
When your cross is hard to bear,
As temptations surround you,
And no one seems to care.
May the wings of faith surround you
And shield you from the pain
When sorrows overcome you
And teardrops fall like rain.
May you know that God is with you
In times of deep despair.
May the spirit, who's within you,
Confirm that He is there!
May the valley of the shadow
Provide angels unaware...
May the wings of faith uphold you
When your cross is hard to bear.
- Poet, Clay Harrison
TRUE REST IN THIS EARTHLY LIFE COMES BY DYING TO OUR SOUL LIFE AND GETTING RESURRECTED BY GOD'S LIFE OF HEAVEN.
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It is in loving others unconditionally, we become blessed to be a blessings.
Unselfish motives are the true test of Christian love.
We are not to love others for reward, but we should love because God first loved us even when we were enemies to him.
The Bible says, "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Rom 5:8).
When we love others expecting something from them, our motives are tainted with coveteousness of the hidden kind. This is not love at all. The purest love of all is the unconditional, selfless and undying everlasting love that loves expecting nothing in return. This is the God-kind of LOVE.
Saint Francis of Assisi captured this concept of unselfish motives better than anyone I know. Just read the poem that has come out of the depth of his selfless heart attitude,
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace;
where there is hatred let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
May our good Lord help us all to live His life on earth as His children's and GLORIFY HIM in all things!
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Apostle James says, "13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away." (James 4:13-14).
It is pride of the devil that makes us boast with what we have, for nothing on earth we own and nothing from earth we can take away. Remember the way we have come, that way we will soon pass away like a vapor.
A vapour stay's down on earth as water, as long as the heat does not affect it. Once it hits the boiling temperture it suddenly becomes water vapour and goes up in to thin air up in to the sky. When the mid noon phase of our life comes and we soon get lost in the oblivion of dusk that descends soon.
The psalmist David poetically said, "Man is like a breath; His days are like a passing shadow." The breath of man is once and for all taken out by God to Himself when His appointed time gets fulfilled (Ps 90:10; Luke 12:20). Like a passing shadow that gets lost in the darkness as the day ends, in the same way our life soon gets over in to eternity as our appointed time passes out soon.
Moses wisely said to God, "So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom." (Ps 90:12). In other words Moses was asking God to help him to spend life meaningfully by living to fulfill God's purpose for his life which gives eternal benefits ahead, rather than wasting his time seeking earthly pleasures which at the end of his life will have no meaning as it is a wasted time as per God's plan for him (Heb 11:24-27).
The people who know that life is temporary in its very core, will have an outlook that seeks for things of heaven rather than store for themselves temporary treasures which are of no use after they die (Matt 6:19-21).
See how God testified about the life of David the man after God's own heart, "For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, was buried with his fathers..." (Act 13:36). In other words, David fulfilled all those plans God had in His heart for him and his generation, looked forward towards his eternal reward and fell asleep.
May we who read this might ask God like Moses to give a heart full of wisdom to spend our days to fulfill His purpose and not waste our little time we have on earth seeking passing temporary pleasures. May we like David fulfill all of God's plan for us and our generation and sleep confidently in the end looking towards our eternal reward in God.
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God has revealed His word to us so that we can all live a godly life of GRACE and GLORY.
Godliness doesn't mean perfection, but it is the way of life lived on earth according to God's original design which pleases God. We learn God's original purpose and design for all humans living this life on earth through HIS WORD. Apostle Paul the theologian who was inspired to write nearly one third of the total New Testament Bible said, " 16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work." (2 Tim 3:16-17). We are equipped in godliness increasingly as we read, hear, talk and obey the word progressively more and more.
Some times godliness really hurts us while God trains us in it and at the same time we see the wicked ungodly people prosper in their pursuits. Then we say to God, "12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who are always at ease; they increase in riches. 13 Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence. 14 For all day long I have been plagued, and chastened every morning." (Psa 73:12-14). But this question painfully bothers us always until we enter in to the Presence of God, where the reality of God's favor, guidance, answered prayer and God's eternal reward ahead of us becomes as sure as the rising of the sun on the east daily morning (73:16-17). There we also realize the slippery places, destruction, desolation and the consummation of the ungodly in terrors of God at the end (73:18-19). There in the midst of God's reaffirming Presence we realise the foolishness of our thinking and then we declare to God with with a shout of Joy, " 22 I was so foolish and ignorant; I was like a beast before You. 23 Nevertheless I am continually with You; You hold me by my right hand. 24 You will guide me with Your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory." (73:22-24).
O what a privilege to be guided with God's wonderful counsel of victory and then afterwards to be received in to glory as a result of it. Surely we grow in to God's knowledge from "glory to glory" (2 Cor 3:18). Take heart Saints, The Lord has surely set us apart to let Himself hear when ever we call and cry to Him in desperation as His very own child. The Lord will surely answer you the next time you face problems and cry to Him for an answer in HIS PRESENCE!
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"You know, people say that today. "Oh, I am just a saved sinner." That is like saying you are a married bachelor. That is like saying you are an honest thief, or a pure harlot. You can't be a saved sinner. You are either saved or you are a sinner. He came. "Thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall save his people from their sins." He saves us from sins that we have committed and from committing a thousand more that would meet us at the judgment." - Leonard Ravenhill.
"For as by one man's [i.e. Adam's] disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of One [i.e. Jesus Christ] shall many be made righteous." (Rom 5:19, MKJV).
We should not just say we are righteous and live as though we never even tasted it, but we should receive the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the gift of righteousness that comes along with it as a package, and should choose to use it to reign in this earth even to eternal life (Rom 5:17, 21).
A sinner cannot reign spiritually over sin, sickness and death in this life on earth, but the righteous saints will reign through Jesus Christ for the GLORY OF GOD (2 Cor 2:14; 5:21).
Receiving the gift of righteousness progressively through intimate relationship with God will destroy and crush sin, sickness and death, then you will truly live as a prince with God. This is the true Israel of God (Gal 6:15-16).
Never forget that because we are the righteousness of God and are declared and constituted righteous in His sight, we have the privilege to work righteousness by receiving the gift of righteousness by faith (Rom 3:21-22; Rom 1:17).
Praise the Lord! Blessings.....
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"30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. 31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?" (Rom 8:30-35).
This Scripture really renewed me today from a terrible attack of Satan and I thank God that it will bless you too. My hope came alive once again and soared sky high because I realized it is GOD who has Predestined, Called, Justified, Glorified me in Christ Jesus and have revealed His unconditional love towards me apart from my own works and behavior. Satan may try to intimidate me for a time, but the ultimate victory has already been won by My Lord Jesus on the Cross and once for all I have been forgiven of all my past, present and future sins (Eph 4:32; Col 2:14-15). Praise the Lord, for His mercy endureth forever and His grace super abounds forever. This is the reason Apostle Paul asked the unthinkable question, "Who is he who condemns?", challenging the very evil powers that tries to accuse us of sin continuously. PRAISE THE LORD!
In a nut shell the great a man of God C.S. Lewis describes this conflict that we have in this earthly body and our SOARING HOPE in Christ by saying, "If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
In short the LOVE OF GOD is the deepest of all desires in us that craves for a God in heaven. The LOVE OF GOD is the heavenly garment that covers all our sins (Prov 10:12). The LOVE OF GOD affirms our heart of heaven and keeps the accusing enemy of our soul defeated in his pursuit of making us ineffective for Christ. We are truly ruled from the world above and are made for another world of heaven for which we are trained now to be positioned afterwards (Matt 6:9-10).
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BLESSINGS OF THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT.• °*”˜˜”*°•. LOVE•°*”˜˜”*°•. JOY •°*”˜˜”*°•. PEACE ¸.•°*”˜˜”*°•. LONG-SUFFERING ¸.• °*”˜˜”*°•. KINDNESS •°*”˜˜”*°•. GOODNESS •°*”˜˜”*°•. FAITHFULNESS ¸.•°*”˜˜”*°•. GENTLENESS ...•°*”˜&˜”*°•. SELF-CONTROL ---♥♥ ALL THESE I PRAY FOR YOU TO HAVE MORE AND MORE EACH DAY! AMEN!!! ♥♥•
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