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 INFINITELY MORE

Ephesians 3:20-21 "Now all glory to God, Who is able, through His mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Glory to Him in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever! Amen."

In the Gospel of John, many of His followers turned away because of the covenant commitment He required of those who would follow Him. That covenant declared that what was to happen to Jesus would also happen to them. We, too, must lay our lives down and choose the will and way of God's Kingdom over all else.

Those in the crowd knew that in Jerusalem, the Jewish religious leaders were plotting and planning Jesus' destruction. To follow Jesus to that degree required denying self and the thrall of the world and its ways, even to the point of laying one's life down by refusing to deny the Lord and His salvation.

Jesus turned to the 12 and asked, "Are you also going to leave?" (John 6:67-69) and Peter replied, "Lord, to whom would we go? You alone have the Words that lead to eternal life. We believe and we know that You are the Holy One of God."  

There is no other place of complete assurance and eternal security but God's Word alone. Jesus Christ ALONE has the Words of Life, eternal life.

Jesus told the first disciples and tells those of us who now follow Him by the grace and power of the Holy Spirit that there is more He wanted to say to them/us. You can see in the Epistles and in the Four Gospels that there was so much more for us to know and to begin to walk in. 

There is infinitely more than we know just now, exceedingly more than we could ever know or conceive of asking. There is no scarcity in Jesus Christ. There is more for us in Him than we have yet to see, understand and begin to live out in His resurrection power.

The Lord God does exactly what He says. He keeps His Word, doing all He said He would do, everything we could never accomplish; these things He has done that we might become new creations by grace through faith in Jesus and united to Him by the Holy Spirit. 

Keep seeking the Lord! St. Paul stated that, Apostle though he was and instructed in the Gospel by the Lord Jesus, Himself, he had not yet "arrived" or become "perfect" yet. Galatians 1:11-12 "Dear brothers and sisters, I want you to understand that the gospel message I preach is not based on mere human reasoning. I received my message from no human source, and no one taught me. Instead, I received it by direct revelation from Jesus Christ." 

Paul stated that he was reaching out, stretching out to lay hold of the very thing to which the Lord Jesus had called him. Philippians 3:12-14 "I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me. No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us."

Keep following. The Shepherd IS leading, Feed on His Word. Yield to the life-transforming work of the Holy Spirit making His salvation "flesh and blood" in you! There is more for you and me to live into, to walk in, to know.

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