He
wants commitment (Matthew 10:37,38)
and for us to follow
the
things of love He increasingly reveals greater insight and wisdom
on:.Micah
6:8 "He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD
require of you, but to
do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly
with your God?"
He went flat out for us.
How hard it must have been for Him to give us His life:.Matthew
26:39. I mean He had it all. He did miracles. He was in great health.
In His early 30's, He gave it all up for us. Jesus Christ is more than
Lord.
He is our dear
spiritual brother.
He was willing to give it
all up for a reason why He came in the
first place – again, Matthew 26:39.
His purpose was to make much
available to us.
One of those things was
so we could think as he does, with compassion,
love
and concern for others:.John
15:8-14; 1Corinthians 2:16.
He wants us to first of
all to be of loving mind, having as our decision the parameters
of.the two great
commandments (Matthew
22:36-38) which show how the Great Infinite One thinks:.1John
4:8,16. His heart is for us to be compassionate,
caring,
kind
and loving towards others,
being likeminded in love (Romans 15:5;
Philippians
2:2; Ephesians 4:13) and progressing
towards
His fulness.
The commandment of love has
no comparison with the highly regulatory, restrictive,
and impossible to follow Mosaic Law, which had the ten commandments
along with it:.2John
1:6.
The Mosiac Law produced the
grace and forgiveness of God in the lives of humans back then, as it was
virtually impossible to follow, and because it placed everyone into
a state of sin, needed a balancing event which occurred each year.
He does
not want you to come under what came to be known as a."yoke
of bondage".
He wants you to know that
God
the Father is in love with you.(John
16:27;
17:20-26) and that our
lives now are in His most capable hands thanks to His Father's wonderful
plan:.Ephesians
1:6,12,14 "To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath
made us accepted in the beloved...That we should be to the praise of his
glory, who first trusted in Christ...unto the praise of his glory."
God always was forgiving.
God always wanted a relationship with us individually:.2Chronicles
7:14 "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves
and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I
hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.".God
also does not want you to have to continue to go through the agony of what
caused you to need forgiveness, perhaps again
and again, and where things could get worse:.Luke
11:24-28.
He wants you to have the
joy
He has.
He also wants you to overcome
and gain a great reward, to grow up into Him:.Ephesians
4:13-15 "Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge
of the Son of God, unto a perfect.(original
'brought to its end, finished; wanting nothing necessary to completeness;
full grown, adult, of full age, mature').man,
unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.(through
and study and by believing.what
God thinks about you). That we
henceforth.(from
now on).be
no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind
of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they
lie in wait to deceive; But
speaking the
truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head,
even Christ."
2Corinthians
10:5;
Matthew 23:11.–.He
wants you to not be thinking about being righteous in your own eyes, but
to have others' concerns at heart. You can do this by thinking about His
righteousness that He imputed to you and by thinking and believing (knowing
for certain) that Jesus Christ is indeed in
you.
You will become different.
Without that,
works tend to exalt the self.
When you take on the attributes
of a servant in caring and kindness to others, attitude toward life improves.
Problems however (the
tests
and trials that we all have) still come along (Matthew
6:34) as they are used for character development:.Proverbs
3:11,12 "For whom the Lord loves he corrects.(as
a child learning to balance, steer and ride a bicycle, who needs a hand
to keep him upright); even as a father
the son in whom he delights."
Hebrews
12:6 "For whom the
Lord loves he chastens.(original
is 'trains' or corrects to improve).and
scourges.(original
is 'causes calamities').every
son whom he receives. If you endure.(original
also means 'take it patiently').chastening,
God deals with you as with sons. For what son is he whom the father chastens
not? But if you be without chastisement,
whereof all are partakers.(God
is the same with all of us:.Malachi
3:6 "For I am the LORD, I change not......"),
then are you bastards and not sons. Furthermore we have had fathers of
our flesh which corrected us and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much
rather be in subjection.(serving
God in the spirit, meaning, when our spirit has the same loving nature
He has, and expresses it in good works toward others, we are aligned with
His purpose for the universe and all in it).unto
the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened
us after their own pleasure, but He for our profit, that we might be partakers
of His holiness. Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous,
but grievous; nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness
unto them which are exercised thereby. Wherefore lift up the hands which
hang down and the feeble knees and make straight paths for your feet, lest
that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed."....continue?