STRUGGLED ENOUGH?

I’m impressed to write this to all those who are struggling with an “old” vs “new” mind-set. The “old” keeps saying that you are a sinner because you are not “perfect” in your thoughts or actions. The “new” in a small still voice is saying, “I died for that and I’m here, right now to silence that contrary voice.”

The only way a baby grows is by beginning to suckle on the breast of its mother. That requires a closeness unparalleled in this world, the mother giving that which she has and the baby receiving from the mother. Soon it comes that baby is ready for more solid, yet soft food. Again, the mother provides that which the baby receives and takes. And so it is with growing physically. To grow we must eat.

So, in like manner we who have believed, in no way, by any definition are immediately fully grown upon first believing. We have just merely been given the free and permanent access through the Spirit of Eternal Life to the greater and eternal things. So, God, to grow us up within the Son of His Love, Christ, sends to us the Spirit of Christ Jesus Who then teaches and trains us within the Word of Truth in Christ the whole of Truth to lead our soul into union with His soul.

In America, the Spirit will lead to the Bible as our starting point. We need to let our eyes feast upon the Word of Life which is Jesus. He is also called the Bread of Life. Eat it, chew it, digest it until it sustains you with the Life within it. Then you will come more and more to understand.

We will only grow as we eat of the Heavenly Bread of Eternal Life. We will only be trained in the way we should go by the Holy Spirit. The world being without the Spirit of Truth cannot and therefore will not teach or train us in the ways of Christ in God.

As we grow up into the Way of our Lord and walk within the teaching and training we’ve received from the Holy Spirit there will be times that we make mistakes. This is especially true for those who did not receive the Word of Truth until they had many years of training in the world’s ways.

However, the Good News is that mistakes and even ignorance do not ever separate us from Jesus. Love’s Anointing that we’ve received never leaves nor forsakes. In short you can never lose that which is given of God Himself. It’s called grace, the favor of God.

Trust the love of God. He has separated us from the world. Believe it to receive and take it. And by the “way” you will make less and less mistakes if indeed you’ve taken and keep on taking of the life that God freely and continually gives in Christ Jesus.