Ever wonder why it's so hard to "do the things that Jesus did and greater things?"
Here is a hint: "We must decrease, He must increase."
The hardest thing that a person can do is to "die to themselves so that Christ can live through them."
Love of self is the biggest barrier to decreasing so that Christ can live His life in us.
That's why we are to "love our neighbors as ourselves".
Anyone who wants to be a successful Christian must follow Christ's example and "do the works." Both you and Christ cannot "fill" the same space in your heart one must give place to the other, and the ultimate victor must be Christ.
Reality is where we get confused.................
We think that because we have been born, raised and live in this present world that we cannot imagine or give place to what is actually real. Real things "don't" pass away! Real thing are eternal! This present life is likened unto a "vapor" that exists for a short time only, eternity is real because it never ends. Our lives are just a short spot on the "timeline" of creation for in God there is no time to exist in. When you experience "eternity" it will be easily recognized giving the knowledge that it will never end as it has never started.
This is a problem for those who "practice" the miracle of Salvation and Christianity "in their heads and not their hearts."
The mind cannot comprehend eternity because it is a Spiritual state, a promise, a reward from God the Father through Jesus His Son. Those that have the Holy Spirit should "ponder these things in their hearts." He will lead into all Truth and remind us always of those things.
For me eternity is real and God proves that continually, sometimes daily, by the miracles that He works through answering prayer and fulfilling His promises.
I add this notation here knowing that it will distress some but nothing can be taken away from me that has been or stop that which will be.
As Paul the Apostle has written:
2 Corinthians 12:2-4 "I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago-- whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know, God knows-- such a man was caught up to the third heaven. And I know how such a man-- whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows-- was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which a man is not permitted to speak.…"
These several events in my life have given me the opportunity to experience eternity as it will be when the reward is reaped upon my crossing. Even though everyday I war with "decreasing" so that Christ can manifest Himself in Me, the hope of glory."
Anyone who would walk Godly in Christ Jesus must die to himself daily, as long as it is called today" so that Christ can work in us to glorify His/our Father in Heaven.
I said that this notation would distress some of you. And I'm sure now it has. But here is my heart on that: I am at times not only distressed but distraught to see how lightly "the redeemed" take to the commands of Christ and God our Father. The church has many excuses to "cast a shadow" on the precious promises that were made by God and sealed with the price of His Son's blood. He made us a covenant in blood, all we have to do is be obedient, not discuss or philosophize "does it" or "doesn't it." If God said it that ends it!
God will preform all things, even the impossible to those that believe, by faith, without question that "every Word of God is True."
Now and forever Amen.
So:
What are you calling real?
As for me and my house we will serve the Lord.
Love
J&E in Tn
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