John 14:21 (NASB20)
“The one who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will reveal Myself to him.”
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The connecting of these two thoughts is almost scary because it is so vivid…
The keeping of Christ’s commandments, to Christ revealing of Himself…
The profoundness of this statement, but even the more, the promise there is in this statement… Which is the putting forth the way forward of one’s relationship with Christ..… Meaning, that to the degree one’s heart wants to have a relationship with Christ, to that degree can that heart have a relationship with Christ… The keeping of Christ’s commandments being the doorkeeper…
So than how can one keep Christ’s commandments on a moment by moment basis?
When I was younger I would scream and cry to God about why He would not fix me… Me, being the disaster that I was, I knew how wrong the motivations of my heart were, I knew how wrong my reasonings were, how much I didn’t know or understand, I longed to have a good heart, but could not make myself.. I would do so so for a time and be able to control my judgments, but would always fail sooner or later.. Henceforth would I cry, God why won’t you fix me? … Not knowing He couldn’t fix the old creation, it had to be put to death to stop its workings..
So therefore, because my salvation i.e. (fixing me) was His highest priority, He did one so much the better……
He therefore killed me, meaning, that He showed me that when Christ died on the cross, He put me to death with Him, which, as with all deaths, frees that one from their life… Therefore to the degree I have faith or reckon into this truth, am I freed from all my failing judgments to be pleasing to God… He showed me He brought to birth a new creation in me, which creation grows by the faith of my heart turned towards Him.. In this new birth is the obedience to Him found, so that the law might be fulfilled in me, but not by me… So with a constant looking off to Him to grow this new life in me, which fruit is the manifestation of righteousness in my doings, do I look to Him…
For He taught me to the degree I reckon myself dead to sin and alive unto Him, to that degree will I walk in all the light I understand…. So with a constant heart to see into the commandments the deeper, that I might walk in the light of righteousness the more, do I look to Him…
Faith and faith in God alone is the requirement, a constant looking off to Him in all things… For I have died and my life is hid with Christ in God.. That I might by experience experience this truth the deeper..
Be blessed in your relationship with our Savior, Not me
“The one who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will reveal Myself to him.”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The connecting of these two thoughts is almost scary because it is so vivid…
The keeping of Christ’s commandments, to Christ revealing of Himself…
The profoundness of this statement, but even the more, the promise there is in this statement… Which is the putting forth the way forward of one’s relationship with Christ..… Meaning, that to the degree one’s heart wants to have a relationship with Christ, to that degree can that heart have a relationship with Christ… The keeping of Christ’s commandments being the doorkeeper…
So than how can one keep Christ’s commandments on a moment by moment basis?
When I was younger I would scream and cry to God about why He would not fix me… Me, being the disaster that I was, I knew how wrong the motivations of my heart were, I knew how wrong my reasonings were, how much I didn’t know or understand, I longed to have a good heart, but could not make myself.. I would do so so for a time and be able to control my judgments, but would always fail sooner or later.. Henceforth would I cry, God why won’t you fix me? … Not knowing He couldn’t fix the old creation, it had to be put to death to stop its workings..
So therefore, because my salvation i.e. (fixing me) was His highest priority, He did one so much the better……
He therefore killed me, meaning, that He showed me that when Christ died on the cross, He put me to death with Him, which, as with all deaths, frees that one from their life… Therefore to the degree I have faith or reckon into this truth, am I freed from all my failing judgments to be pleasing to God… He showed me He brought to birth a new creation in me, which creation grows by the faith of my heart turned towards Him.. In this new birth is the obedience to Him found, so that the law might be fulfilled in me, but not by me… So with a constant looking off to Him to grow this new life in me, which fruit is the manifestation of righteousness in my doings, do I look to Him…
For He taught me to the degree I reckon myself dead to sin and alive unto Him, to that degree will I walk in all the light I understand…. So with a constant heart to see into the commandments the deeper, that I might walk in the light of righteousness the more, do I look to Him…
Faith and faith in God alone is the requirement, a constant looking off to Him in all things… For I have died and my life is hid with Christ in God.. That I might by experience experience this truth the deeper..
Be blessed in your relationship with our Savior, Not me
