Skip to main content

 NOTHING LEFT OUT

If you have put your trust in what God has done for you in Christ Jesus, then you need to realize that God is living His Life within you by the Holy Spirit. He has not left anything out. He lives Life within you, and you have all you need to follow Him, to hear Him, to know Him and to cooperate with Him in what He is doing in the world to rescue others who were just as lost, confused and spiritually dead as you once were.

When you find yourself being led to worry, the devil is trying to subtly covey lies that God is not who He says He is. This is called a "doctrine of demons" as is usually grounded in the moment by referencing the reality of God against what you are feeling. Your feelings do not define who you are in Christ, but, the world around you has grown accustomed to defining who they are by what they feel. That is why life seems so unstable. Feelings come and go, are affected by what we ate for lunch, how much sleep we had or didn't have, by barometric pressure and the instability of others around you. God doesn't change. His promises never vary. His Presence in you is not modified by a "bad hair day."

Satan has not changed his demonic tactics. He wants you to doubt that God told you the Truth by attempting to get you to reference "Truth" to how you feel in the moment, or to distract you by "what ifs" or "if only". Thoughts that attempt to "exalt themselves" above the knowledge of God, what God has revealed about Himself in His Word. Those "vain imaginings" need to be stopped in their tracks, rejected and disposed of by bringing them to Jesus saying, "Do you see this crap!? I bring it to you to be torched in the Holy Spirit's fire. I don't want lies lodging in my mind!"

I may not always be able to see how God is working in the day-to-day, or moment-by-moment, but I can always see clearly who God is and how He keeps His covenant commitment to us in His Word, His revealed, written Word. I go there when I can't see clearly. It is my "touchstone" reminding me that He will never change, and that nothing in all creation can separate me from His love in Christ Jesus.

The Lord Jesus has left nothing out. His salvation working in you is complete and is being worked out in you with His promise to bring to completion what He began. It can all be worked out in you BECAUSE you belong to Him; you are His and He is Life within you.

Your hope is built on nothing less that Jesus' blood and righteousness. You dare not trust the "sweetest frame" but wholly lean on Jesus' Name. On Christ, the Solid Rock you stand; all other ground is sinking sand. (Great old hymn of faith.)

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

 HE IS RISEN! IT IS FINISHED! After the Israelites had passed through the Red Sea by God opening the way for them to be saved, the whole of Pharoah's army, his horsemen and chariots pursued God's people into the opened way. Once they were all in, the waters flowed back into their place with suddenness and fury. Not one of the enemies survived. All perished in those waters. When Jesus Christ hung on the cross, all that sin contained, the full measure of the rebellion of mankind for all time, all the wickedness that was ever in human hearts were absorbed into the Lamb of God as He died our death, received our just judgement from God for all time, taking all that sin and death contained. In Him, sin and death died once and for all. They were overwhelmed, covered and drowned in the sea of His precious blood, poured out for the sin of the whole world. Not one enemy remained alive, all were stripped of their power to hold us in slavery to sin any longer. All their weapons were confis...
Post a Comment
Read more
 CONVICTION When the Holy Spirit convicts us of sin, He doesn't ask us to make it right. We can never add to what Jesus Christ has already done on the cross to deal with the totality of our sin. The Holy Spirit asks us to accept the truth, turn from sin and turn to the Lord. Then He will make it right. Remember Who our faith depends on from start to finish, that salvation is of the Lord alone. Laying aside every hindering weight and the sin that so easily trips us up (different for everyone), we are to run the race He has given us to run with perseverance, fixing our eyes on Jesus. He is the One upon Whom our faith depends on from start to finish. He will never run out of eyesight any more that a good shepherd would go ahead of the sheep he was leading where they couldn't see to follow. Hebrews 12:1-2 "Surrounded then as we are by a great cloud of witness to the life of faith, let us strip off everything that hinders us, as well as the sin which dogs our feet, and let us r...
Post a Comment
Read more
WHAT DO YOU BLESS? It would be an act of utter folly and disaster were I to choose to "bless" what God will not bless. God's wrath is set against anything and anyone that would try and hinder you becoming all He created you to be and to grow in by being united to Him through the sacrifice and resurrection of Jesus Christ. There is nothing arbitrary about the Word of God. He is very specific on what will make for life and what will not. Human life only becomes human life when the Holy Spirit becomes Life withing a believer. Being united to the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the follower of Jesus becomes a new creation and begins to live Life as God intended. God begins the good work, and He is the One who will bring it to competition. Somethings will NEVER make for life. What God calls sin, missing the mark of what will make for life, is always sin regardless of what culture anywhere and anytime say to the contrary. Sin cannot save, heal, redeem, restore or remake...
Post a Comment
Read more