John
14:21 “He who has My
commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be
loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”
I heard a story about a little boy fell out of bed and was crying. His mother came, picked him up, and
said, “Honey, what’s wrong? How did you fall out of bed?” He said, “Well, I
guess I went to sleep too close to where I got in.” I think there are a
lot of people who have done exactly that. They get into Christ and somehow they
just seem to go to sleep right there. They say, “I’m saved and that’s it.” But,
that’s not it.
2
Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if
anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have
passed away; behold, all things have become new.”
The
Lord God meets you where you are at, but does not keep you were you are at. It’s
just the beginning of a relationship that will last through all eternity. When Believers
are justified (to absolved or acquitted from guilt and merited punishment, and
to be accepted as righteous on account of the merits of the Savior, or by the
application of Christ's atonement to the offender) by the redemptive atoning blood
of Jesus Christ, they are sanctified (made holy;
consecrated; set apart by God for God’s sacred
services) and begin the maturing into the likeness of Christ process of
sanctification (the act of God's grace by which the affections of men
are purified or alienated from sin and the world, and exalted to a supreme love
to God). God is in the life-changing heart transplant business.
Ezekiel
36:26 “I will give you a
new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out
of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.”
God
wants to move you further into a knowledge of Himself. 2 Peter 3:18 “But grow in the grace and knowledge of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and
forever. Amen. I don’t know about you, but I’m not satisfied with the
status quo of my life. I want to go deep into the heart of Jesus. To know pure
and true love, joy, peace and patience; to not get too close to where I got in.
I desire the same for you.
Luke
8:11, 15 “Now the parable is
this: The seed is the word of God sown in their hearts. The ones that fell
on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good
heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience.
In
Christ, Brian
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