This New life in Christ is everything you need it to be. It’s just not always what you want it to be. If you are in it long enough, there might be times that you wonder and maybe you doubt about your role and your purpose. If you never have these thoughts, Amen. But I’m pretty sure there are many Christians that go through these times and it is usually when you are in a period of patience or when a prayer hasn’t given you the answers you desire. Sometimes, it is because you don’t see yourself as He does. Then, you may begin to speculate some or all out second guess. If any of us go through this, He isn’t shocked or taken aback. Clearly, He desires total trust, but He’s kept us here, in a world that has a very heavy influence on us and we have very little control. This is where a seldom talked about lie has to be highlighted. That a believer’s faith alone carries the whole relationship with Him and that fluctuations irreversibly damage your destiny. This is so very untrue. This is the truth: He has incredible faith in man and it does not vary based on ours. If He did not believe in us and that we could possibly respond to His Love in Sacrifice, he would have never done it. His Love has hope in us. Way more than we do in Him. Specifically, He has godly belief in you, the one who has His Heart and gave theirs in return. He is committed to you and He never lies so His word is concrete. This is what it says: – “The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me;
your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever.” Ps 138:8 – “being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Phil 1:6
– “for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.” Phil 2:13
-” I will accomplish all my purpose.” Isaiah 46:10
He is not distant, hanging back, leveling up and down according to your faithfulness. You do need faith, a faith rooted in His Perfect Love, but a mustard seed is enough. His Sacrifice and His Spirit is your guarantee that He is determined to finish what He started. Today, believe that He believes in you.
Love Always
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If this were not true, I would be better off never knowing Him. I’d have no way of maintaining an all loving, consistent relationship with Him if my faith affected His. I have hope because He has hope in me and it stems from His Perfect Love. When He decided to pursue me, He was not enamored because of an idealistic image of me. He knew and knows me. That I am not a super human and that I will falter at times. Still, His faith in me was based on His belief that even though I am a human, I do have the capacity and capability to love and to change. And this He knew was true even before I would be transformed by rebirth. The human heart is equipped to love even if it is subpar compared to His. But still, it is able to love and that is what He was after. A response based on my own imperfect heart’s desire. He cherishes that initial response because it is completely voluntary and not powered by anything except my stunned gratitude for His Sacrifice. Once we merge our hearts, He gives me all that I need to stay with Him. He wants me and this means He will do, say, give, to me any good and godly thing that will ensure this. The end result is that I am now believed in, strengthened, and empowered by the One who made me. Even if my faith drops so low, it is almost gone, He will keep on believing. The only way I experience a hitch in this connection is if I walk away. I have seen the evidence of His faith in me. It has given me the ability to love in direct opposition to my own nature. And once I love, everything else in me joins in. I don’t renege or take it back. If I said it, I really mean it. While it’s true that I could waver in my conviction about my own faith, the love He caused to grow in me, does not. This love is the power of Him in me and I can’t deny it or minimize it. The recipients of my love are forever owners of it. Which is definitely not characteristic of the former me. The way I see it, it is definitive proof of his Faith in man. That He would entrust His own Loving Spirit in us believing that it would finish His loving work in us.
