Hi there!
So Jesus says "I do what I see the Father do" (from memory, the Gospels). But why does He do this? I think it is because when God does something that Jesus is able to do after Him, they both are able to do that thing together. Now this being "together" is important, because there is a multiplying effect, of the two doing the same thing in the one place. The Holy Spirit is able to bring them together spiritually. But more than that, this is able to be the beginning of "God-things". Jesus loves 'happening' and He loves it if the thing happening is a "God-thing". I am trying to encourage you to enter in on this mindset.
Our life - as Jesus' life was - should be full of "God-things": miracles, deliverances, confessions, empowerments, transmissions, translations and so on. Christ reaches out, in His 'happening' to anything that could become a "God-thing". For Jesus, everything the Holy Spirit shares with Him, is a God-thing. God defines Christ, but God-doing is an open opportunity for Christ to turn doing into being-a-thing. It becomes something that He can be known for, trusted in, hoped by. The purity of this is incredible - how much more the power for us, then, if we desire "God-things" the way Jesus did?
I suppose this takes prayer, that God would develop over time our ability to do "God-things", to feel the nearness of Him, in what we become known for - no matter how much people hate it; and hate that God gives it to us. If we have to be hated for a "God-thing" then good! Let it be! The point for us is that we get better at the God-thing Christ wants it to be. It's not about us.
I hope this has been of some encouragement.
God bless.
So Jesus says "I do what I see the Father do" (from memory, the Gospels). But why does He do this? I think it is because when God does something that Jesus is able to do after Him, they both are able to do that thing together. Now this being "together" is important, because there is a multiplying effect, of the two doing the same thing in the one place. The Holy Spirit is able to bring them together spiritually. But more than that, this is able to be the beginning of "God-things". Jesus loves 'happening' and He loves it if the thing happening is a "God-thing". I am trying to encourage you to enter in on this mindset.
Our life - as Jesus' life was - should be full of "God-things": miracles, deliverances, confessions, empowerments, transmissions, translations and so on. Christ reaches out, in His 'happening' to anything that could become a "God-thing". For Jesus, everything the Holy Spirit shares with Him, is a God-thing. God defines Christ, but God-doing is an open opportunity for Christ to turn doing into being-a-thing. It becomes something that He can be known for, trusted in, hoped by. The purity of this is incredible - how much more the power for us, then, if we desire "God-things" the way Jesus did?
I suppose this takes prayer, that God would develop over time our ability to do "God-things", to feel the nearness of Him, in what we become known for - no matter how much people hate it; and hate that God gives it to us. If we have to be hated for a "God-thing" then good! Let it be! The point for us is that we get better at the God-thing Christ wants it to be. It's not about us.
I hope this has been of some encouragement.
God bless.
