God gave me my appetite...

It has been nearly a week since my last post and yet it has been a time of pursuit of Him and His will so that's a good thing. The last post hopefully wet some appetites about the things of the Spirit. I have an "appetite" for knowing all I can about the Lord, His Spirit and the mysteries of God. I didn't do one single thing to attain that appetite, it came from God, the Author and Creator of all things seen and unseen. I recall first learning these mysteries of God and they continue to amaze me.

In Romans 1:19-23 it says, "...that which is known about God is evident, within them, for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power, His divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what is made, so that they are without excuse." But God chose to come to us in the form of man so that we could fully understand His love!

For it says that, "God will judge the secrets of men through Jesus Christ"..."God nowhere holds a person responsible for having the heredity of sin, and does not condemn anyone because of it. Condemnation comes when I realize that Jesus Christ came to deliver me from the heredity of sin, and yet I refuse to let Him do so" (Romans/Chambers).

I hope that your appetite is now anxious to know more, for God's Word goes on to say that, "Just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, thus death spread to all men, because all sinned...and so we see that just as the nature of sin entered into the human race through ONE MAN, the Holy Spirit entered into the human race through ANOTHER MAN.." Romans 5:12-19.

What does this mean for the soul which is stirred to belief?!!! Living forever is not enough for God dear friend..no! That is NOT the end of the story...being REGENERATED and having a new heart is the rest of the story! I love how Oswald Chambers says this. "The new testament teaching about regeneration is that when a person is "hit" with his own sense of need, God will put the Holy Spirit into his spirit, and his personal spirit will be energized by the Spirit of the Son of God...until Christ is formed in YOU" (Gal 4:19).

And that is the message I want to leave you with today. I must get to this point. It is my responsibility and not Gods. I must tell God I am at the point that I NEED HIM...only then will He begin this work of regeneration in me and create in me a new heart, having His Spirit, and continuing to reveal His Son in me". And so the message is that it doesn't end at the point of "belief". And I say Amen to that!

In recognizing what He did for me, in His coming and being mercilessly beaten and crucified to the point of nonrecognition for my "heredity of sin" or my sin state, and then being raised from death, I learned that I would live forever with Him. But the Spirit beckons me to understand even more. Not only was it for my life but also for my "life abundant"..my freedom of sin's captivity. He was also raised for me to live in victory over that power of sin! How? In the glorious message of abiding...Therefore, I strive to live at that point of NEED, every day, and every hour, just as how I first came to Him, a pauper, poor in spirit. So dear Savior and Friend indeed, "I need thee every hour". Till next time, I am praying for you.