Who Is On The Thrown?

My Utmost For His Highest

 

‘We must have a oneness with His risen life before we are prepared to bear any particular truth from Him. Do we really know anything about the indwelling of the risen life of Jesus? The evidence that we do is that His Word is becoming understandable to us. God cannot reveal anything to us if we don’t have His Spirit. And our own unyielding and headstrong opinions will effectively prevent God from revealing anything to us. But our insensible thinking will end immediately once His resurrection life has its way with us.’ CHAMBERS

 

The Navigators use a picture that shows  a cross,  a circle and a thrown. It represents Jesus, a person’s life and their heart.  The point they make with it is that at one time Jesus was outside of the circle, my life.  When I become a Christian, Jesus is inside the circle but the question is, “Does He sit on the throne of my heart?”  Am I a carnal Christian or a Spiritual Christian?  We don’t like to think in those terms.  But the truth is that unless Jesus is on the throne .. commands our heart … we will live in carnality .. following the old nature ….

 

Galatians 4:3-9  “Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world.  (4)  But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,  (5)  to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.  (6)  And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, "Abba, Father!"  (7)  Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.  (8)  But then, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods.  (9)  But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage?”

 

Lord help us to live by Your Spirit and not our own flesh.  The Spirit gives life .. the flesh … death … “Prone to wander, Lord I feel it.  Prone to leave the God I love.  Take my heart now, Lord and seal it.  Seal it for Thy courts above.”

 

Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)