Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Living Today Knowing That We Are Heaven Bound

My Utmost For His Highest
 
Do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven. —Luke 10:20
 
“Jesus Christ is saying here, “Don’t rejoice in your successful service for Me, but rejoice because of your right relationship with Me.” […] you will never be able to measure fully what God will do through you if you do not have a right-standing relationship with Jesus Christ. If you keep your relationship right with Him, then regardless of your circumstances or whoever you encounter each day, He will continue to pour “rivers of living water” through you (John 7:38). […] Once you have the right relationship with God through salvation and sanctification, remember that whatever your circumstances may be, you have been placed in them by God. […] For the saint, direction and guidance come from God Himself, not some measure of that saint’s usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that counts, not what we do for Him. […] Jesus is “bringing many sons to glory…” (Hebrews 2:10).” CHAMBERS
 
Most often when we consider our Christian lives, we think of the here and now.  We don’t think in terms of the truth that on the day we were reborn, we were reborn into eternal life.  (1 John 5:11-12) “And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.  He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.”  It is hard for us think beyond the next blink of our eyes.  We have eternal life in heaven.  Life is only going to get better. But in the meantime ….  (2 Corinthians 4:7-10)  “…we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.  We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;  persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed—  always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.”
 
The only way that you are going to live with an eternal perspective is by fortifying your spiritual life.  That is the reason I get up early and write these words.  I want to encourage you to pursue the Lord and live a life of faith.  (Ephesians 3:18-19) “to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”  We have a glorious hope for tomorrow and a glorious purpose for today … to show the world Jesus by word and deed.  Are you ready?  ELGIN

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