In the fallen state of this world, it is an achievement to let love to define us.
Desert Flowers Blooming Isaiah 35 - Our Father's creations
In the production, success, significance quest world we live and dwell in, "love leading us" can be a vapor or smoke. We see it's fire and run to it only to have it evaporate. It disappears in the winds of desires for other things, cares and troubles of life, and the challenge of keeping our hearts pure before him.
The real question of life and glory in Jesus is....
Who are YOU before him?
I would put out there... that the real answer can only be found in a first love, a love first standing before the Father focused on Jesus.
Scripture gives us a foundation of knowing the deep motivations of our King Jesus.
"For God so loved the world...." John 3:16
The fragrance of Jesus' life was to love and please the Father, staying in perfected love. He filled up his life with the pleasures of unity with the Father's desires. He moved in what the Father was doing out of sheer joy and grace.
This is the WAY we are called into. With, in and through, the Trinity God we love and serve with joy.
Love is the eternal motivation of our Father God. Jesus fulfilled the mission dream of the Father's heart because of love. Love for the Father. Love for us. In Jesus we have the fullness of love. It echoes out in ripples across the face of this fallen and wrecked world.
Eternities promise is perfect abiding. Abiding with each other and with our Father, Son and Spirit in the overwhelming richness and glory of his loving kindness.
When love leads us and we stand before the Father.....
We find deeper and deeper wells of perfected love. Driving fear away and pouring into heart, mind, spirit and soul a tangible overwhelming connection and rest.
This is where we find ourselves.
To the devoted follower of Jesus, this is the point of arrival and empowerment. Abiding in Jesus is the secret place. The place to discover eternal life and grace filled identity. This place, this standing, is ours because of Jesus. He stood before the Father and now stands at his right hand. Jesus completed the will of the Father in perfected love. So he was exalted to the eternal priesthood of perfect love and worship. We are invited to walk with him and abide with him in his relationship with the Father.
This is where we find ourselves. Before him.
When disciples start asking, "Who am I before Him?" Pointing their face toward Him, standing in his presence, the still and quiet voice of perfect love speaks a word that can fuel a 1000 years of faith hope, and love.
Deep connections, longed for with the Father, run in pathways of perfect love.
This is where we discover who we are in HIM. This is where we hear his voice. The voice that plucks the deep strings of our hearts with the sounds of wonder and awe.
Who am I?
Ask that question before HIM.
Discover the wonder and awe of perfected love in action.
Of the ever flowing streams of living water, flowing from the temple of perfect love Jesus won for us.
Won in the Cross
Lived in Resurrected LIFE
Sealed with Ascension Power
This is God's world. Your Kingdom come on earth as it is in Heaven.
Come quickly Lord Jesus!
Bring us into your glory and grace through faith, hope and love.
Speak to us Lord from your loving kindness and perfect love.
We want to live beyond FEAR.
We want to see into the heart of the Father
We want to see into the perfect work of power and redemptive love in Jesus
We want to know how to live in all the fullness of the Lord Jesus Christ
We want your Spirit abiding in and through us in rest, peace and power.
Who is like you, Lord among gods?
Isaiah 49:11 Mountains lead to roads paved by our God.
Hang in there.
Often we start making predictions based on past failures when trouble lands. We start predicting a negative future out of some of our bad memories.
The awesome thing is God is not tied up by our predictions.
He is creative. In love with us. And he is good all the way.
Everything in his heart is to see us live forever with him.
He has provided everything needed in the Lord Jesus and his perfect work.
I have always been a bad predictor of the future....even when I think it turns out bad.
God always sweeps in and something unseen re-writes the story.
That is the heart of God over us.
He re-writes it so we see him, grow deeper in love and learn to walk with him.
In turn he changes us inside forever!
This is all worth it.
Even the days when you are hanging on by the tips of your fingers and you see a 1000 feet of air beneth you. He will catch you.
Or He will sweep in and bring something unexpected.
Believe. Believe. Believer.
Trust in the NAME of Jesus.
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Jeff Reynolds ---
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