2Cor.5:17(Amp) says, "Therefore, if any person is ingrafted in Christ Jesus (the Messiah), he is a new creation (a new creature altogether), the old previous moral and Spiritual condition has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come." We're the only ones who can develop the new creation we've become in Christ. We can, like others, attend church and live clean moral lives or we can spend time reading God's Word and fellowshipping with Him. We can grow beyond the world's ideas of Christianity and become what the Father has planned for us. This personal fellowship with God is based upon us, not Him. He wished to be a Father and have a close Personal fellowship with all His children, but not all of God's children spend time getting to know Him.
God's Door is always open and His Presence is always there for us to enjoy. Through Jesus, God has opened up the Mystery of His will and His Presence, to all His children. Many seek Him when things aren't going right and then back off when He fixes the problem. Then, when they find themselves in another mess, they wonder, "Where is God?" God is always there, not just in times of crisis, and is longing to fellowship with us and keep us out of the crisis.
The purpose of Jesus' coming to earth, was to bring God's children home to Him again. Now that we're new creations and have entry into His Presence, God longs to fellowship and know us as His sons and daughters. We have access to God's Throne of Grace any time we wish to enter in, not just to ask for help, but to fellowship with the Father. Those whose faith is small, are those whose time of fellowship is limited and lacking. We don't only come to Him in prayer or in need, but just talk with and learn to know Him as Father, not just as God.
I recall President John F. Kennedy's being in the Oval Office with dignitaries from around the world, when his small son called John John crawled into his lap. The President was "Daddy" to John John, not just the President. That's what our Heavenly Father desires of us. Of course He is Almighty God, but He is also our Daddy and wants us to be comfortable in His House.
There are things we learn in fellowship with Him, that we can't learn by any other means. We learn the Heart of the One Who Loved us enough to die in our place and returned us back home to Himself. Many hear God's Word, but don't hear His Heart. Some view Him as a God of rules and Laws which we're to follow, without understanding His Heart. All the things in God's Word and the covenant, are for our good and are there to protect and Bless His children. Any good parent will establish boundaries for their children, in order to protect them from harm. Our Heavenly Father is no different, except He knows what is ahead, while we don't.
We need to understand that God's Word and His Spirit will guide us, protect us and keep us safe. Many disobedient children have lost their lives on this earth, because they failed to listen to the words of their parents or guardians. Many of God's children have gone Home to be with Him long before their time, because of their disobedience. God didn't "take them," but He did receive them, when their time on earth was cut short, because they would not hear. Many today, have lost their lives from drug abuse and overdose accidents. They were told to avoid and stay away from these things, but they didn't heed the word of warning and believed they could handle it on their own.
Most of us aren't smart or savvy enough to navigate this world without the Holy Spirit's Guidance. God created our lives and He knows best how we should live it. Adam believed that both he and Eve could make it on their own, which cost them everything. Surely we can learn by his mistake and follow God's way of doing and being right. Jesus has restored us back into what the Father created for mankind in the beginning. We don't know how to handle it, but He does.
The Psalmist write in Psalm119:9-11(Amp) saying, "How shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed and keeping watch on himself according to Your Word (conforming His life to it). With my whole heart I have sought You, inquiring for and of You, and yearning for You. O let me not wander or step aside, either in ignorance or willfully from Your Word. Your Word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against You." We can't take the new creation being we've become in Christ for granted. We don't need another religion, but we need to seek a family relationship with our Heavenly Father.
Christianity was always to be a family relationship with Him and not another religion with rules and regulations. Jesus came to restore us to unity and fellowship with the Father again. Many crazy things have come from our misunderstanding our relationship with God. Some even believe they're to punish themselves by flogging and performing other rituals and traditions, in order to serve God.
If we acted this way in our earthly families, then people would rightly think we're "crazy." God's family gives all the Love that the Universe holds, according to 1John4:16-17,18(Amp), which says, "And we know, understand and recognize, are conscious of, by observation and by experience, and believe in (adhere to and put faith in and rely on) the Love God cherishes for us. GOD IS LOVE, and he who dwells and continues in love dwells and continues in Him. In this union and communion with Him, Love is brought to completion and attains perfection in us, that we may have confidence for the Day of Judgment with assurance and boldness to face Him, because as He is, so are we in this world."
John continues in Verse18, saying that "Perfected Love casts out fear (full grown, complete, perfect Love expels every trace of fear." Because, John writes, "Fear brings with it the thought of punishment, and so he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of Love (is not yet grown into Love's complete perfection)." We love our Heavenly Father, because He first Loved us and gave His Only Begotten Son to die on our behalf and bring us into God's family once again. This was what God had Planned from the beginning.
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