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.
Knowing you Jesus is the deepest one can get in life. To move toward intimacy with you is to reach the depth of existence. Your being is majestic and mystical. The longer I walk with you the more I know you and love you. The more I know and love you the less of me there is. While I am on this earth I pray that I know you so well there will be nothing left of me. I want to be lost in you even though I do not deserve it. In you I am and in you, I shall be. Grant me the loss of myself in you.
Dr. Don’s Reflections
I did not always understand how a walk with Christ would work. But now after years of walking, falling, getting up, giving control, taking back control, asking for forgiveness, getting forgiveness, having a strong faith, doubting my faith, being taught, counseled, and convicted by the Holy Spirit there is one aspect of my walk that remained the same all my life and that is my love for Christ. In fact, it did not remain the same is increased.
Throughout all the aspects of my walk, all the ups and downs and bad and good, I remained in love with my God. This love grew because of the knowledge and understanding of God I received from my walk with Christ. The more I got to know him and understand him, the more I grew to love him, and just as important the more I grew to understand how much he loved me.
To feel the love of Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit is to create an existence that is far above any existence that the world can produce. It is majestic.
To experience the intimacy of the love of Christ and to wallow in the mystery and the majesty of his being can only be had with the grace of God. Experiencing this state of being with the Lord is what I mean by getting lost in him.
I know I have such a long way to go to be completely lost in Jesus Christ. However, this little glimpse of being lost in him gives me the strength and belief that I can get there. I live to be no more and to be lost in the greatness of Jesus Christ
Dr. Don’s Comments
So many Christians feel that walking with the Lord is simply keeping the commandments and being in the word. But the reality is these are vehicles that allow you to become intimate with Christ and to enjoy a special state of love and peace with him.
Your goal should not be to try to earn your way into the love of God. That cannot happen. You cannot earn your way into heaven. You can love your way into heaven by denying self and getting lost in the love of Jesus Christ. By getting lost in his love you are getting lost in him. The Bible tells us in 2 Corinthians 3:18
“And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.”
Your walk with Christ is a transformation. If you are the same with Christ today than you were a year ago, there is something wrong with your walk. Walking with Christ is becoming like him even if it is a little step at a time. And yes we sometimes take steps back but after tasting the sweetness of God’s love and care we bounce back to walk even further to become more deeply lost in him. For in him, with him and by him we find the depth of existence and love and peace that is beyond human understanding. You have to experience to know it and then it is still beyond words.
Whatever you do always seek intimacy with the Lord. In doing so you will see your “false self” who you and the world make you out to be and then you will be led to find your “true self”, that is, who God wants you to be.
