I hope that is the reality that you have found in the love of God towards His children, and that includes you and me!
If it is not, I dare you to rest in the truth that He has chosen you to be His child born again from heaven. He has called His sons and daughters in Christ Jesus from the foundation of the world as written in Ephesians 1:4, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation that we should be holy and without blame before in Him in love…..
Wow! Is that not just beyond awesome…. We have always been in God’s mind. The plan of Jesus Christ to redeem us from the unholiness and blame of the separation from our God. Only God could do that!
Now, by the grace of God, we are brought close to the Lord through the veil that was torn by Jesus Christ’s flesh. We can enter in…..to His realm, to know His love, His life…. Though He never stopped loving us, but because of the greatness of the Great IAM, we could not approach Him. Let alone have a relationship….. or have knowledge of Him by truth and grace in the gift of the Spirit, as we treasure now.
So His love is so outstanding when you sit before Him, His love makes us feel we are the only ones in His eyes…. Yes, He looks at us through His beloved Son…. but the plan of God was wanting to spend all of eternity with your presence in His! This is outstanding news…. Amen? Yeah!!! Amen!
Now the best news will be when we can look at each other in Christ and see His favorites in each other. Then treat each other as we would treat God’s favorite…. We want to be treated that way by others, but it starts with us first…..
How about we see and treat each other as though Christ’s home is within each of us. We then act through the love we have in Him and from Him towards all the brethren… as we know that we are all His favorites because we abide in His Beloved Son…..Jesus Christ showed us the great tenderness of our heavenly Father….loving, correcting, guiding us by His Spirit.
It is easy to see Christ in others and love them and see how God treasures them, if you already know you are treasured in God’s eyes.
We cannot give what we do not have…. We cannot see the love and the kingdom of God in others if we do not see the kingdom within us and His great love establishing us in His Son, Jesus Christ.
So we can also conclude that if people are looking for worst in each other, it is because they are seeing the worst in themselves. But the good news and truth is we are dead in the baptism of the cross of Christ and have been resurrected with Him in new life. Do you believe that?
I think if we did, we would not slander, gossip, judge…. break the rules that Jesus Christ have laid down before us…..( My paraphrase), Love God with your all and treat everyone as you want to be treated…. We would not be taking the commands lightly if we really saw the holiness of the Lord in us and His desire for that to arise in us.
We can only give what we have—– godly qualities or carnal flesh. However, we are admonished in Galatians to watch our sowing and reaping, for we will receive the work of our hands, mouth and the source, which is our heart.
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to the flesh reaps corruption, but he sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life, (Galatians 6:7-8).
The works of the cross in each of our lives will be evident in how we treat the brethren and “brethren to be”. Why judge before the time as Paul writes to us. What are we judging anyway?
How much Christ is in each other or how much darkness we see in each other?……If we are looking for darkness, we are growing the darkness within each of us…. However, if we look for the Light of Christ, hidden in His vessels…. We will see the Light of the world as the Light of the world is growing in us. We will comprehend how much Christ loves us and see why that love exists and pours forth for each other…. No mushy gushy touchy feely affections that fleet in a moment or sound great in a hallmark card…. but deep down living love by the Spirit of God, seeing Christ and showing Christ in the brethren….. No matter what fleeting feeling feel comes by us!
Love opens the door and offers the sight of the staircase of ascending in Christ’s love to all…..We can share that vision with all or close the door by our own darkness seeing only darkness in our brethren. Our choice again.
Let us choose to love and grow in the Light as Christ is growing within us….. or choose to see the darkness and let the Light of Christ diminish by the harshness of hate and works of the flesh.
We have choices everyday to live in His love and grace and pass that on to each other by seeing their worth in our Heavenly Father’s eyes or we can choose to be in darkness. The problem is as we continue this misguided path we won’t know how dark that darkness is until the day of reckoning with the Lord.
As Paul admonishes us in Romans 8:5-8, For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then those that are in the flesh cannot please God.
It is wise to stand with the word of God written on the brethren than stand against God! For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified, these He also glorified.
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Let our King Christ Jesus find us not speaking against the brethren, whom He died to redeem because He loved us all! He is in our midst! After all, we are speaking against His own body! We are speaking against Christ? What was the sin that Jesus Christ said that would not be forgiven????? Do we understand what He meant when He spoke out the rule of heaven in regards to the Holy Spirit and His work?
How is your gift from the Lord for 2015 growing?
Who Do You Say I AM for your brethren or neighbors or nations far away?
Your love, My King, never ends or fails for each one of us! Lord, I pray that we seek open eyes to Your great love within each of us to shine and spread throughout Your body as we love as You. Let us draw Your Light out from within each other by Your love flowing through us.
Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous; not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing. For he who would love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit. Let him turn away from evil and do good; let him speak pace and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their prayers; for the face of the Lord is against those who do evil, ( 1 Peter 3:9-12).
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious oil upon the head, running down on the beard, the beard of Aaron ( Jesus Christ), running down the edge of His garments. It is like the dew of Hermon, descending upon the mountain of Zion; for there the Lord commanded the blessings- life forevermore!, ( Psalm 133).
Let us be found obedient that we love as He loves to the best of His Light within.
Selah!
