Why is it that after we have answered the calling to come to
Him for our salvation that we who were so filled with a desire to know more of
Him drift away? Or we having "our afterlife secured" we go our way to
build a life only to find success elusive at best and at its worst a pitiful
example for others. Or for some they just wait and wait "going with the
flow" while doing their best hoping that is enough for some magical
something to change everything to blessings upon blessings.
If you
can identify with these my struggles, I have "good news" for you. Because
our creator loves us so much we have been given out of His own being every
spiritual blessing and all things pertaining to eternal life and godliness (godlikeness)
but we've not been taught or understood that all is only found within the
eternal life that is Jesus Christ. We thought we were given a gift to go on our
merry way to act and to do as we pleased. Not so.
There
is no other name than Jesus by which men must be saved, delivered out of our
lowly state. We all have been given a new life and given the way to enter the
source of that life to live every moment of every day within and out of that
life. John chapter 15 gives us this principle. When we give up the old way of
thinking, acting and doing and accept this new way of living we soon will
encounter the one who called us to enter.
He is the vine from which life flows. Everything we need has already
been provided. But if we refuse to be one with that vine, if we refuse to enter
that life and abandon the old we will not receive any of the benefits of that
new life.
We all
have been invited. Yet most have refused, wrongly thinking that the life they
have been given is only to be received at some future date after they have died
or when Jesus comes back. The good news is that He sent His Spirit to lead us
into this new and living way.
That
life and that living way are always near because they are in the NOW. NOW ever
is present in a word so when the word is heard that "NOW is the day of
salvation", that is the eternal word of life speaking . NOW-faith is,
contains, is complete in life, and is our assurance of all things hoped for and
the tangible evidence of things not yet appearing in this realm.
All who
call upon His name Jesus,(Yeshua in Hebrew, which means God is salvation), will
be presented with all that He is. He holds all things together because it is He
who made it all. All began with Him and all ends with Him, rather within Him (within
His authority).
Out of
His eternal unconditional love for us He has beckoned us with a heavenly
calling. Called by that name to enter that name which provides the way to enter
and to stay day after day on the inside of that name where comes the revealing
that He alone is eternal life and He's asking us to enter that love life, to no
longer live for self but to give our all to Him. In exchange He gives His all
to us.
What is
the first step? Believe upon the name for it is He who is life and that life is
only in Him.
Be
fully immersed, baptized, into His name Yeshua, becoming one with Him, infused
with His life and you will be led into a place of intimacy which will change
you from the inside out. He has already provided the way for you through His
Holy Spirit to come to know Him in His completeness.
Jesus made the point that when we live within
His words we will not only be His true disciples but will know the truth which
will make us free. He also said that if we live, make our home, within His word
of unconditional love that we could ask anything according to that word that He
is and the Father (Creator) would be glorified by providing that for which we
ask.
So then
what is the outcome? It is an out-flowing from the true life that is within us to
bring true life to those caught in the trap of the world and its religions.
Take what has been freely given and give it away. The name, give out of the name
to those who the Spirit leads and watch what happens.
A little
song was given to me by the Lord over twenty years ago:
We
come in the name of the Lord
To
set the captives free.
We
come in the name of the Lord
Proclaiming
liberty.
We
come in the name of the Lord
To
deliver from suffering and shame.
We
come in the name of the Lord
We
come in Jesus name.
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