No greater love has ever existed than the One who lays down his/her
life (what He perceives as his life independent of God) for another!
This is laying down a conciousness of duality, just as James spoke about:
The good/evil tongue, the fresh/polluted river, and the double mind!
He then goes so far as to say this kind of “seeing more than God”
leads to only one place! Which is a life of self absorption that
results in quarrels, jealousies, and wars, and even to the point
of murderous thoughts and actions!
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and
love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.
Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say unto you, TAKE NO
THOUGHT FOR YOUR OWN LIFE, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink;
nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than
meat, and the body than raiment? (Mathew 6:24-25)
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence,
even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye
kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye
have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ASK
AMISS, that ye may consume it upon your lusts (life). (James 4:1-3)
I think it was Spurgeon who said if we are to ever finally grow up IN
Christ we have to forever remove the words what, where, when, why, and
how, from our modern day vocabulary.
Moving into maturity is all about “I only do what I see the Father
doing” and then realizing there is no other Christian Life but the One
Christ himself is longing to live through the heart that is completely
His, the “Single” heart that has no other rival lovers!
How can one look at Mathew 6 (take not a thought for your life) and
passages like it and conclude anything but seeing that “asking amiss”
means a continued focus of a relationship with God that is centered on
asking for myself? Especially when we see the REAL Jesus NEVER taking
one thought for His own self preservation!
Isn’t He the One who is living that same life through us? Isn’t He
the One who initiated the Covenants of promise? The very meaning of
Covenant being “I no longer live for myself but for my covenant
partner?”
I am finally discovering after a lifetime of so much loss, pain, and
disappointment, the only reason I am here is for others…period!
This is the “Good News” of the Gospel; being freed from a life of a wrong perception of life as we abandon ourselves to the “other lover” Christ IN us! (Covenant Love) has NOW become our One and only Hope of Glory!
It’s in this place of seeng as He sees where we NOW discover there is really only one question that needs to be asked?
How long will we NOW make Him wait…on us?
Only God only NOW!
Rich Novek,Linda Novek and Joan Reilly are "Rich in Christ Ministries".
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