DO YOU HAVE A CONNECTION AND COMMITMENT TO THE HOLY SPIRIT? IF NOT THIS BLOG WILL HELP YOU LIVE IN, FOR, BY AND WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT SO YOU CAN HAVE A VITAL LINK TO JESUS CHRIST.
To match what you spiritually know of me now with what you spiritually knew of me in your past is a trick of defeat by the devil. Your walk with me has matured spiritually with each step. So the further along in your walk you are with me the more you know about being spiritually solid. To look at the past and say you should have done this or that based on what you know now defeats you. I judge people by what they know of me now and how they act accordingly. If a soul does not know me or my ways how can I hold him to the ways of the souls that know who I am and what I expect. I know your past sins cause you sorrow but take comfort in knowing all your sins have been forgiven. Your knowledge and ways of the past are not where you are today in your spiritual development. I have given you much forgiveness and many blessing and your knowledge of me is great, so now I require much from you.
This Whisper is so true. When you know so little about God little is expected from you but when you grow and mature in the Lord much more is expected from you. My experience is just that. When I was a “Sunday Christian” and knew of the Lord but did not know the Lord little was expected of me. But it is not that way anymore.
I accepted Christ in 1978 and while my walk has been at a much slower pace then it should have, I have mature greatly in Christ and I love and know him well. Accordingly, the Lord expects more from me now then he did many years ago.
That is true with any love relationship, isn’t it? When lovers first meet they are taken back by the initial falling in love. But as time goes on they learn more about each other and in doing so their love increases and they expect more from each other.
In my walk with Christ, which was much slower than I wanted it to be, I have grown to know him more. In that knowledge, I have found his love was true and so I answered the Lord’s love with true love or as true as I could give in my humanity.
Now that I am further along with my walk with Christ I am more mature and he has revealed much wisdom and understanding to me. Along with our increased love, I have come a long way from where I was years ago with Christ. So now the Lord expects much more from me than years ago. Do I always give it to him, no? But make no mistake about it he demanded all that I could give even when at times I fail to give it or I did not try to give it.
This is all explained in Luke 12:48
“But someone who does not know, and then does something wrong, will be punished only lightly. When someone has been given much, much will be required in return; and when someone has been entrusted with much, even more, will be required”.
The Lord has stayed with me all these years. He knew I would fall along the way and not be able to meet all his demands. He picks me up from my falls and then demands more from me. And yes I found first hand that the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. But I thank God for his love and patience he has with me and I pray I will get to the point where I surrender my “self” to him so that I am totally in him, with him, and by him for eternity.
Dr. Don’s Comments
Walking with Christ is really a mystery? Do you feel the demand of his love? Can you feel him making you a stronger Christian despite your falls? Do you understand that maturing in your walk means you count less and he counts more? It is a hard notion to grab and that is why they call your Christian faith a mystery.No one wants to give up who they are but the more you walk in Christ the more he will ask of you and the more you want to give yourself to him.
His call will always be on you and in the midst of that call you cannot be still. You have to move forward in his love and in your sacrifice. The further along you walk with him the more sacrifices may come your way. It is not as if you are looking to suffer it is because you are chosen by him and you are in his love you are willing to sacrifice and suffer to whatever degree you may encounter in this world.
Throughout your walk, with Christ, you will witness many changes in yourself and some of them will surprise you. Yes, there will be changes that you are working on hopefully with the grace of God but some changes will seem like the Lord did them for you. You will witness the change and say to yourself from where did that come. Then you realize it is the Lord working in you and with you.
The entire purpose of your walk with Christ is to bring you into perfection and to get there will require much on your part but you must realize that Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit is affecting change in you as you too are working on change. It is an effort between God and his people to bring them from humanity to divinity. If you are in this walk and understand what I am saying then “REJOICE”. If not then “REPENT” and ask the Holy Spirit to come into your being and guide you in this walk of which I speak.
