I stand always amazed at how much God wants to communicate with us continually. Seems like no matter what time of day or position of body, or participation of motion (work, play, ect), He is always and all ways there to manifest His presence and meet with us on a personal and active level. Sometimes this meeting is just a conscious presence of His being there and thereby heart felt. Sometimes it is verbal with His instruction for us and our listening with both our ears and our hearts. Sometimes it's His gently nudging us to do something of His will that we don't understand or that we can't figure out where this will lead us.
No matter what the way, or reason, He "meets" with us, the main thing is that He does and should, at least on a basis that says He is alive in our lives and guiding our hearts.
Do you believe this? Is it a part of your daily "revelation of Jesus Christ?" If not daily: when you seek Him do you find Him regularly? Be honest, most of us are claiming some sort of "religious" practices or faith, but the question is: "does your faith manifest itself" in real Biblical experiences?"
Hebrews 1:1 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen."
Understand that faith is "true reality". Not like the carnal, physical, visible world that we live in, transient and ever changing. True Faith takes it's roots from the unchangeable real spiritual world of "without end." The Biblical promise world of an "unending eternity."
Look at it's very definition: Now faith "IS" the substance of things hoped for. Reading this we can only surmise that faith is the substance, ie. true reality, truly touchable, truly apprehend able, and the only thing worth hoping for. Real faith validates the achieving of hope, in fact it guarantees it as much as we view this world to be real, faith is more.
"The evidence of things unseen" proves that faith is it's own evidence because "by faith" the unseen is acted on as seen and therefor received by that self same faith. Evidence is what we use to validate truth (not so much any more but it was this way in the beginning). The participation in faith that we apply ourselves in will then manifest itself in reality. So if you have little or no faith, or just a carnal, mental faith then the "things of God" will be hidden from you and your "growing in faith and grace" will be thwarted. Our faith must put us into a class of believers that believe "that God is and He is a rewarder of those who seek Him diligently."
Here is where we fail, we stumble at the stumbling block, that word "DILIGENTLY".
Here is an example that someone once told me: "God is God but this is reality." If God is not your foremost "reality" then where are you living and what is most important to you? Is God in "all" your thoughts? Is your thoughts in subjection to the "Mind of Christ?"
Could this be why our daily/weekly/monthly/yearly walk with God is so "Divinely Uneventful?"
Scripture says "Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts."
We are to ask, seek, and knock "in accordance with His will" in order to "receive" the substance and the evidence" of hope and the unseen.
We have to become like the man with the devil possessed son who said in desperation to Jesus "Help thou my unbelief."
Do we have to be sinking to these depths of despair before we cry out for help with our faith? Are some of us there now? Have we forgot who is the "author and finisher of our faith?" Are we so strong that we don't need "Divine" help and so we rely on the "arm of man." Is our God's arm shortened that it cannot help, heal, deliver?
God cannot change. He is from everlasting to everlasting. He knows your life as a story already told. He has put all things needed in your path/life to draw you unto Him and His Gospel for the sole reason of having "fellowship" with you. Fellowship means to walk, talk, and be an active, real, living part of your life.
The first place this is manifested is in prayer, (communication), which is a conversation (two or more participants) not a monologue, (only you talking). If your prayer time is just a monologue ending with Amen, and not a time of "waiting on the Lord" to hear what He has to say, then things need to change. When you kneel before God in that most solemn and intimate time of prayer, be still and know that He is God. You are bowing before the God of creation and glorious in your sight. If He is anything else then a good look at your heart needs to be taken.
The second (and most lied about in Christianity) points at the proof of His "manifesting" Himself and His will through His promises and commands.
For You does He? If we walk with Him we will be conformed to His image and likeness and manifest His will on earth, seeing Him do His will and doing it also. Hearing Him speak and speaking the same. Doing those things that Jesus did and greater.
If you don't believe that this is His intentions for you then just what do you believe? Did He bring His Son to the cross and out of the grave to just save you. Was that price offered for your sins just so you can "walk streets of gold?" Or did it come with a contract of "obedience" to His Word, and Will wrapped in His Love. We owe Him! Everything! Our Hearts, Souls, Minds, Bodies, Wills, efforts, passions, focus, everything! It may take a while for us to get there but with the right companion (the Holy Spirit) for the journey, and the right food and drink, (His Word) to strengthen us, we are more then fit for the journey which is our "calling and election" for "in Him we live and move and have our being."
Gird up your loins with strength.......fit yourself for battle,,,,,,,draw neigh to God and He will dray neigh to you..........remembering that "faith comes by hearing and that by the word of God."
Read the Word, pray, so growing in faith and thereby producing fruit "keeping with repentance."
Though I am always reminded of the "sin that ever wants to posses me" I am also ever assured of the Savior who bought me with a price eternally and my passion and desire to serve Him, keeping Him ever in my heart, thoughts, words and deeds, receiving of His will in prayers, dreams and visions to do and speak.
"This is the way, walk ye therein."
Love
J&E
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