Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Yes, we must live in this world, but we must live FOR another world.

'That the end we ought to propose to ourselves is to become, in this life, the most perfect worshippers of GOD we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity.

That the greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine grace.'

The above quotes are from -  Practice the Presence of God - Brother Lawerence
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Yesterday we studied the truth that we need to truly live for our Heaven Home and we need to live for it RIGHT NOW. We can't wait until we are dying to give up all our cherished vices. We can't wait until we truly believe that Christ's second coming is imminent, to stop living for this world.  No, we can't take ourselves out of this world and our God can't take us out of this world.

Jesus prayed to our Heavenly Father-

Joh 17:15  I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world…

We are NOT going to be taken out of this world, we have to live in this world filled with evil, filled with sin, filled with temptation, filled with lusts, filled with all that would keep us separated from our Father God, our Creator, from love.  And I'm not going to bother with the WHYS, we know why. We know that mankind chose sin over love and we, like it or not, understand it or not, inherited this world through them. We also inherited a chance for REDEMPTION.  One was not without the other- EVER, NOT EVER!  When sin separated God and man- a way for redemption was created, in fact it was IMPLEMENTED because it had been created before mankind existed.  REDEMPTION.

Yes, we must live in this world, but we must live FOR another world.

We have to take stock of our lives and continuously ask ourselves if we are seeking to become the most perfect worshippers of God that we can be, because this is our END GAME. Being PERFECT WORSHIPPERS of GOD is our END, our ETERNITY!  If you do NOT want to be a perfect worshipper of God, then you are NOT seeking heaven as your home.  If you WANT to be this perfect worshipper of God BUT find yourself failing over and over, find that Satan is trying to convince you that you don't want this at all, it's because he seeks to have you rely on your feelings of desire as the want and not the knowledge beyond the feeling as the want.  Our failing is our flesh nature, our succeeding is our submission to God.  When we fail, we FALL before the THRONE and seek forgiveness.

'That the greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine grace.'

If you are dependent upon someone for something that means you are counting of them in some way. If you grow MORE dependent upon someone, you are counting on them even more. If you are completely dependent upon someone, you are counting on them for EVERYTHING. 

When we strive against sin, truly aspiring after the perfection of our Savior to have Christ in us, to be perfect worshippers of God, then we have to realize that we are going to grow more and more dependent upon DIVINE GRACE!

Please Father, please teach us to be Yours now in this world, for Your world to come! Please!

More tomorrow by Your grace and love.

All through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior!

AMEN!

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