05/28/2028
We should want to live the resurrection life of Jesus. Our greatest desire should be to become one with Him and in Him with God. Is this our hearts desire now... not sometime in the distant future but right now? Are we living this unified life, and if not, are we striving for it every day, and with each breath we take? Does this blur the spiritual line too much for us? Well, let’s think about this today.
“So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you. In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.”
John 16:22-23 ESV
Jesus told His apostles that there was a day coming when they would ask not of Him, but of the Father in His name. When we have matured in our faith that day will have come, and we should seize the victory that this represents... but are we doing so?
“In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf; for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.”
John 16:26-27 ESV
The Father loves us as His children, and we dwell as one with the Lamb of God. From this vantage point we have achieved, through Jesus Christ, what Adam lost; and more. We are approaching the will that God has desired for us from the beginning, and through Christ we have been forgiven. Pastor Oswald Chambers wrote these words in his devotional message for this morning...
"When once your disposition is willing to submit to the life of Jesus, the understanding will be perfectly clear, and you will get to the place where there is no distance between the Father and His child because the Lord has made you one, and "in that day ye shall ask Me no question."" - Oswald Chambers
Being in submission to Jesus and living the life He has set before us. This is our goal in the near term and once we submit ourselves in this way then we will begin to ask the Father in the name of Jesus and reach a new level of spiritual maturity. Accomplishing this milestone of faith allows us to place it as treasure in our faith’s keeping place and to move further along towards discovering the next step in our spiritual growth.
There is a time in our human maturation when we begin to take personal responsibility for our lives and begin to speak for ourselves as full-fledged adults. One of these great biblical breaking points is marriage. We read the description of "growing up" in these words:
“and said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."”
Matthew 19:5-6 ESV
God established marriage, and in it a man and a woman become one flesh. Spiritually, God did the same thing when The Messiah came. In Jesus we become one and our relationship with God changes... we approach Him directly, albeit in the name of Jesus, but as spiritually mature creatures.
Are we there? Are we speaking for ourselves in the name of Jesus, and abiding within the will of God? If not, are we striving to reach this point in your spirituality with each passing moment?
Prayer:
Father, I thank you for your Son Jesus, and I thank you for bringing us together as one. Lord, help me to grow in my faith and bring me swiftly to the point where I will ask you the great questions in my life, and do so in the name of Jesus. Holy Father your desire for me is to know you intimately, and to understand your will for me and what my place within your will is. Guide me to that place, and let me forever remain in your grace, your peace, and in your desire for me. Holy Father, I pray all of these things in the name of Jesus Christ, your Son, who is my redeemer and joint heir. I long to walk with you and talk with you as Adam did in the Garden, Jesus does now, and all the resurrected believers will one day do. Teach me how I am as one with you Lord and let my heart be at peace, even as my mind understands what Jesus meant when He said that he abides in me and I in Him… then goes on to say that He abides in you, and you in Him. Help me Abba to become mature enough in my faith to assume my place as one with you and thus abide in your presence righteously throughout eternity. As believers we are the church, the church is the bride of Christ, and just as husbands and brides become one flesh… so Jesus is one flesh with us and serves to join us all together as one. Merciful and full of Grace are you Lord God for leading us by your Holy Spirit each day into new measures of faith and an understanding of your truth… your Word. Praised be your name Father for Holy, Holy, Holy, are you who was, and is, and is to come.
Halellujah! Amen!
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
John 1:1-5 ESV
““For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”
John 3:16-17 ESV
“Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.””
John 8:12 ESV
“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6 ESV
Rich Forbes