Hi there,
So there is just a question of parity, that I have come across, in my study of the Word. That when we believe, we do not immediately grasp the power, of the Word of God, that is coming to Jesus. Jesus is receiving power on Earth, and all the more power in Heaven, in as much as Hell loses its grip on the faith, while they are between Heaven and Earth. Jesus Himself said "the reward in the next life, does come with persecutions" (Mark 10:30, from memory). While we don't want Jesus' persecutions to hold us up, on the way to Heaven, by the same token, we don't want persecutions we can't deal with, when we get there. This is really the power of trusting Jesus, scripturally being the self-same way that the Holy Spirit trusts Jesus. What He enables us to do, in the meantime, is the power of God (and the reason that God loves the remnant of the faithful, as much as He does).
So the question is are we becoming more reasonable, as we wait for our Lord, or more unreasonable - as with the foolish virgins that kept no oil for their lamps (gospels, from memory) - such that we are unready to serve the Lord, when He comes? What we want, is to add power, to Jesus' Power, to be the difference He Himself was for us. And there is room for us to do that a number of ways, it has to be said; the woman who washed the Lord's feet with perfume and wiped them with her hair, has a place in scripture that no one can take from her - we also must fit in, where we find strength in the gospel. In time a tapestry will be woven, with such life that no artist even of any other time, can make greater. This is the power that continues to flow through Jesus to us.
What this encourages in us, is that we may not reach every fruit of the gospel immediately, but in the end we will be more than satisfied, by what we do reach. There is humility in this too, because we should be mindful of more than our own fruit, but the fruit or need of fruit, of others, with us. It's no good if we can't spare, what we ourselves have freely received. From this, we have a clear leading, that we should be patience, even when the fruit is in our very hands! God does not make every sacrifice, in time, that too will be tested. By this we have union, with one another and in the same vein we come to be known (letters, from memory). It's not our duty to add "power" to what Christ is doing, but to understand that He is working with all the wherewithal that He had on the Cross, for our sakes. The promise of the remnant is coequal with the Law of His Power. Indeed there will be things we never praise God for in this Life, that He will hear again and again, in the life that is to come!
Should we slumber? Should we sleep? Let us be watching, like those that wait for the bridegroom (gospels, from memory)! Why? That when He comes, we may open immediately, to Him! He is the reason we are waiting, why we endure the Devil's attacks, bear up the condemnation of the evil one, carry out the work of the Lord and distance ourselves from the world. Our life is already in the hands of evil men, because they do not know the God who sent us. Jesus said that we must love one another, that just may be our saving grace, in the end! That we have not neglected who the faith is for, will be our calling to Heaven: we must not neglect it!
I'm not making promises, I'm not pretending to come to you in the spirit of something other than the gospel, I'm just very confident of you, that the seed of these things, will one day be understanding in you. If then you flourish now, how greatly will you flourish?
God bless your understanding.
So there is just a question of parity, that I have come across, in my study of the Word. That when we believe, we do not immediately grasp the power, of the Word of God, that is coming to Jesus. Jesus is receiving power on Earth, and all the more power in Heaven, in as much as Hell loses its grip on the faith, while they are between Heaven and Earth. Jesus Himself said "the reward in the next life, does come with persecutions" (Mark 10:30, from memory). While we don't want Jesus' persecutions to hold us up, on the way to Heaven, by the same token, we don't want persecutions we can't deal with, when we get there. This is really the power of trusting Jesus, scripturally being the self-same way that the Holy Spirit trusts Jesus. What He enables us to do, in the meantime, is the power of God (and the reason that God loves the remnant of the faithful, as much as He does).
So the question is are we becoming more reasonable, as we wait for our Lord, or more unreasonable - as with the foolish virgins that kept no oil for their lamps (gospels, from memory) - such that we are unready to serve the Lord, when He comes? What we want, is to add power, to Jesus' Power, to be the difference He Himself was for us. And there is room for us to do that a number of ways, it has to be said; the woman who washed the Lord's feet with perfume and wiped them with her hair, has a place in scripture that no one can take from her - we also must fit in, where we find strength in the gospel. In time a tapestry will be woven, with such life that no artist even of any other time, can make greater. This is the power that continues to flow through Jesus to us.
What this encourages in us, is that we may not reach every fruit of the gospel immediately, but in the end we will be more than satisfied, by what we do reach. There is humility in this too, because we should be mindful of more than our own fruit, but the fruit or need of fruit, of others, with us. It's no good if we can't spare, what we ourselves have freely received. From this, we have a clear leading, that we should be patience, even when the fruit is in our very hands! God does not make every sacrifice, in time, that too will be tested. By this we have union, with one another and in the same vein we come to be known (letters, from memory). It's not our duty to add "power" to what Christ is doing, but to understand that He is working with all the wherewithal that He had on the Cross, for our sakes. The promise of the remnant is coequal with the Law of His Power. Indeed there will be things we never praise God for in this Life, that He will hear again and again, in the life that is to come!
Should we slumber? Should we sleep? Let us be watching, like those that wait for the bridegroom (gospels, from memory)! Why? That when He comes, we may open immediately, to Him! He is the reason we are waiting, why we endure the Devil's attacks, bear up the condemnation of the evil one, carry out the work of the Lord and distance ourselves from the world. Our life is already in the hands of evil men, because they do not know the God who sent us. Jesus said that we must love one another, that just may be our saving grace, in the end! That we have not neglected who the faith is for, will be our calling to Heaven: we must not neglect it!
I'm not making promises, I'm not pretending to come to you in the spirit of something other than the gospel, I'm just very confident of you, that the seed of these things, will one day be understanding in you. If then you flourish now, how greatly will you flourish?
God bless your understanding.
