Every now and then, you
hear about a person, that has been living, hand to mouth, in the streets.
Sometimes, they have been living this way, for so long, that they really don’t
have any idea, who they are, and what they have become. Usually a person crosses
their path daily will take an interest in them. Often times they will try to
figure out, if they have any family. At least they will want to see, what kind
of people, which they were.
There are rare times that
they will find that their family is very wealthy, and often had looked for
them, but had given up after a while. They simply assume that they were dead.
This is not true in all cases. Sometimes the other family members were more
than happy, that the trouble had left the family. They are content to go on
living with one absent.
This can be a lot like
when we turn our backs on God, and become in what is referred to as, a backslidden
state. I can tell you that I am speaking from experience when I say that this
is not a good way to be. I have spent a lot of my life in this condition, and
it is no fun, especially, if you didn’t stay in your relationship long enough
to be grounded.
Ephesians 3:17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by
faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
When a person runs in a
different direction away from God, they tend to forget, who they really are in
Christ. That is if they ever knew to begin with. It could be that you have never had the opportunity, to set
under a real Godly preacher, who wanted to disciple his congregation. I don’t
recall hearing the word discipleship, until I came to Florida, and was around
thirty-six, at the time.
Who in their right mind,
would run from Father, if they knew much about Him? Or Jesus Christ who died paying the high
cost of our sin life? One thing for
sure is when you a member of the family of God, and take out on a running trip.
It is not even like some of our families can be, wishing us a farewell. Holy
Spirit knows where we are at, and will continue, to make us as miserable as
possible in love, to drive us back home.
Please allow me to go back
up here to the questions that I asked, and give you my answer. The answer is
nobody. That is nobody in their right mind. The right mind is the mind of
Christ. You might have had that mind, at one point and time.
Do you think that
Adam and Eve had the mind of God, at any time in their lives? I would have to
say yes, because we don’t know how long, that Satan had been working on Eve. It
would be highly doubtful that he simply walked up, and she fell for his trick
on the first shot.
Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any
beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman,
Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
According to the Webster’s
of 1828 the word Subtil has a meaning of:
Sly; artful; cunning; crafty;
insinuating; as a subtil person; a subtil adversary, Deceitful; treacherous.
Now, that same joker that got those two in trouble is the same
one that lures us from Jesus if we don’t know how to handle him. We have to
study the devil, because he has only one tool, and he is very skillful at the
art of deception. Paul called it the wiles, which is the tricks to deceive.
Ephesians
6:11 Put on the
whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the
devil.
Satan is a worthy adversary, because he has been doing this
madness, since before the earth was created. He has around one-third of the
angels in Heaven duped, in following his destructive path. Satan knew Father, and so did those angels
that he deceived. If someone has stood in the presence of God Almighty, and
they can still be fooled, that should scream volumes at us!!
There is no shame in being deceived, especially with the deceiver
being the master of deception. The only shame is not coming back, into the arms
of Jesus. It don’t matter what people might say to you, because anybody that
says one thing against living the Christian life, doesn’t know Jesus. They
simply don’t understand, that He left His home, in Heaven as the King, and came
down to the miserable existence of a planet, to die for our redemption. The
truth is once you have been touched by Jesus, you can never be happy again
separated from Him!!
That is am incomprehensible form of love, which only Jesus could
show, on our behalf!! I think that it is quite an amazing feat to never be
guilty of sin, not even one time. He has paid the price, of the sins of every
person, in this world. Now all we have to is come back, and allow Jesus to love
us whole. Just because we have been Saved, does not mean, that we have been
made whole. That part is on a time delay, but we will get better, as we go
forward.
Please take this to heart. Being Saved doesn’t make us any
better than anybody else. It simply makes us better, than we were with
Jesus. Ain’t Jesus awesome?
.....Much Love
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