Hello friends :) As you know, I've been trekking in on this eternal journey of knowing God and seeking to experience more of Him. God has truly been revealing Himself to me. One thing that helps to be mindful of is that when you want to know God better or if you want to experience that unshakable joy & peace that Christ and other saints had, we have truly got to get a view of that which is eternal. We have to have our minds and hearts set on things above. Yes, we will be in this world, fully involved in it yet not treating it as if it the things it possessed was of ultimate significance:
"But this I say, brethren, the time is short, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none, those who weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess, and those who use this world as not misusing it. For the form of this world is passing away."- 1 Corinthians 7:29-31
This world is passing away! Yet we treat it as though it were going to last forever. Rushing to get the latest iphone, setting our hopes on marriage as if we will be married at the resurrection (which we will not, the need for it will no longer be necessary! Matthew 22:30) placing our hopes in a college education and a career when jobs are becoming more scarce and scarce by the day. So if we know all these things are going to pass away, if it does not have the power to give us everlasting life, joy, and peace, why do we place such confidence in them? Why do we set our affections on them as if that were all there was to life and then use God as if he were a genie in a bottle?
One thing I am learning is that when you have a proper view of God, it changes everything in your life. It changes the way you pray, the way you seek Him and spend time with Him. It wont become casual, it wont be as though you are seeking Him because you are trying to please Him but more so you begin to seek Him because you love Him, you adore Him, you are just fascinated by Him because He is so beautiful! He is so amazing! There are not enough words in the human language to describe the vastness of God. When you begin to get to know God on a deeper level it will wholeheartedly change the way you worship Him. He seeks those who worship Him in spirit and truth.
Not that I have attained all of this yet myself but there has been some really great progress and the Lord is so faithful, when you seek Him with your whole heart, you will find Him! It's not so much that God is hiding from us, well, He does not hear you if you are a sinner and rejecting Christ but for His beloved, He is right here. The basis of us finding Him is contingent upon how bad we really want Him. Do we really want God? Do we really desire to have Him above all else? Or do we want God "and"? No, it has to be God. All or nothing. God and nothing else. Since God is a good God and loves to see us happy in Him (in Him, first Psalm 37:4) He will give us the desires of our hearts but if something seeks to rule supreme in our lives above Him, He will not compete. The idol must come crashing down, and indeed it will because He is jealous over us (Psalm 78:58).
Friends, it has truly been my prayer that we get a grip on eternity, that we get a deeper knowledge of God not just bible knowledge but intimate, heart felt communion and experience as well. You know when you have been delighting yourself in Him because everything else will become secondary to you. From your heart you will be able to say "All is well because I have HIM" you wont find yourself saying "All will be well when I get this or...when I do that". It is in HIM that we live, and move, and have our being. It is by HIM that all things consist and are bound together (Colossians 1:16-17). Let us fix our minds on the beauty of the Lord for He is absolutely breathtaking. <3
"Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
"But this I say, brethren, the time is short, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none, those who weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess, and those who use this world as not misusing it. For the form of this world is passing away."- 1 Corinthians 7:29-31
This world is passing away! Yet we treat it as though it were going to last forever. Rushing to get the latest iphone, setting our hopes on marriage as if we will be married at the resurrection (which we will not, the need for it will no longer be necessary! Matthew 22:30) placing our hopes in a college education and a career when jobs are becoming more scarce and scarce by the day. So if we know all these things are going to pass away, if it does not have the power to give us everlasting life, joy, and peace, why do we place such confidence in them? Why do we set our affections on them as if that were all there was to life and then use God as if he were a genie in a bottle?
One thing I am learning is that when you have a proper view of God, it changes everything in your life. It changes the way you pray, the way you seek Him and spend time with Him. It wont become casual, it wont be as though you are seeking Him because you are trying to please Him but more so you begin to seek Him because you love Him, you adore Him, you are just fascinated by Him because He is so beautiful! He is so amazing! There are not enough words in the human language to describe the vastness of God. When you begin to get to know God on a deeper level it will wholeheartedly change the way you worship Him. He seeks those who worship Him in spirit and truth.
Not that I have attained all of this yet myself but there has been some really great progress and the Lord is so faithful, when you seek Him with your whole heart, you will find Him! It's not so much that God is hiding from us, well, He does not hear you if you are a sinner and rejecting Christ but for His beloved, He is right here. The basis of us finding Him is contingent upon how bad we really want Him. Do we really want God? Do we really desire to have Him above all else? Or do we want God "and"? No, it has to be God. All or nothing. God and nothing else. Since God is a good God and loves to see us happy in Him (in Him, first Psalm 37:4) He will give us the desires of our hearts but if something seeks to rule supreme in our lives above Him, He will not compete. The idol must come crashing down, and indeed it will because He is jealous over us (Psalm 78:58).
Friends, it has truly been my prayer that we get a grip on eternity, that we get a deeper knowledge of God not just bible knowledge but intimate, heart felt communion and experience as well. You know when you have been delighting yourself in Him because everything else will become secondary to you. From your heart you will be able to say "All is well because I have HIM" you wont find yourself saying "All will be well when I get this or...when I do that". It is in HIM that we live, and move, and have our being. It is by HIM that all things consist and are bound together (Colossians 1:16-17). Let us fix our minds on the beauty of the Lord for He is absolutely breathtaking. <3
"Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
"- Isaiah 40:26-28
Lovely blog, thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteHi there Mrs.Rose! Glory to God of course:) I hope you have been doing well and feeling better!
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