Ps 86:11 Teach me thy way Oh Lord that I may rely on thy faithfulness. Give me an undivided heart that I may fear your name. Undivided means to be reconciled with God. Peace with God means unity and one-ness with him. Peace with God is oneness with him, reconciled to God through the at-onement (atonement) through Jesus Christ.
Growing up in him is learning to become consistent: decreasing my way that his way may increase. Disappointment is the missing of God's appointment. Wisdom is acting according to God's Devine design for our lives even though we do not see the end from the beginnng. My ways are not thy ways saith The Lord: as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my thoughts higher than your thoughts and my ways than your ways.
Teach me thy way Oh Lord. When the student is ready the teacher will come. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled. Meekness, Brokenness and a contrite heart are prerequisites for God's reconciliation. God cannot reconcile a heart that is not broken. From time to time God must bring us to our knees so that we can turn from ourselves and unto him. Repentance is to turn away from the brokenness of our earthen vessel unto the reconciliation of God through Jesus Christ. For we have this treasure in an earthen vessel so that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us.
Both reconciliation and justification are accounting terms. Prior to our reconciliation we were weighed in the balance of God's justice and found wanting. God has justified us by crediting to our account the payment that Jesus Christ made on our behalf. Prior to salvation, were slaves to sin and could only accumulate indebtedness, digging ourselves deeper into debt: another day older and deeper in debt. God through Christ's payment for our debt, has justified and satisfied the balance of our account with God. Therefore being justified by faith (of Jesus Christ) we have peace (oneness, wholeness, reconciliation) with God. The payment has been made, the scales have been balanced, we have been reconciled, and our account has been made right (righteous) with God.
Redemption is also an accounting term. To live redemptively means to appropriate (spend) our account balance for the Master's use. God has called us to live redemptively, redeeming the time (spending our time for His glory) because the days are evil. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
God has prepaid and entrusted to our account a fore-ordained finite number of days. He has called us and entrusted us to redeem each day according to his divine appointment. As we spend our time according to God's provision, God's appointment, walking worthy of the vocation wherewith we are called, we redeem the time to his honor and glory. This blesses the Blessor. As we bless Him, he in turn blesses us.
Redeeming the time, spending time in fellowship with God according to God's divine appointment, yields dividends both in the here and now and in the hereafter... For our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. While we look not at the things which are seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are unseen are eternal. 2 Cor. 4:17-18
Thanks for your encouragement. If you're blessed then
so am I. The Word never returns void.
Your brother in Christ,
Michael
No comments:
Post a Comment