“The mystery of God is not in what is going to be— it is
now, though we look for it to be revealed in the future in some overwhelming,
momentous event. We have no reluctance to obey Jesus, but it is highly probable
that we are hurting Him by what we ask— “Lord,
show us the Father…” (John 14:8). His response immediately comes back to us
as He says, “Can’t you see Him? He is always right here or He is nowhere to be
found.” We look for God to exhibit
Himself to His children, but God
only exhibits Himself in His children.” CHAMBERS
The world needs to see Jesus, but the only way it can see
Jesus is in the lives of the Saints. (John 17: 6-18) “I [Jesus] have revealed
you [God the Father] to those whom you gave me out of the world. [..] I gave
them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty
that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. […] they are still in
the world[…] Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you
gave me, so that they may be one as we
are one. [… ] I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for
they are not of the world any more than
I am of the world. My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but
that you protect them from the evil one. [..] Sanctify them by the truth; your
word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world.”
Jesus said that if you want to see the Father then look at
Jesus. The Word says if you want to see
Jesus, look at Christians. Do you feel
the weight of that like I do? Suddenly all of those things that the Word tells
me I should be doing become mandates not options. My life is to be a reflection of Jesus not the
world. If people don’t know I am a
Christian because of the way I live my life .. what I say .. what I do .. what
I don’t say .. what I don’t do .. then I am failing in the charge given me by
Jesus and the primary purpose for my being on this earth. I was talking with someone the other day ..
someone who is not a Christian. In the
course of the conversation, they caught a word before it had fully come out of
their mouth and said another word. The
word not said was profane … but as I thought about it in the context of my
faith, I realized that they were not responding to me, but Christ in me. Oh, they like me certainly, but at other
times, they have not been so careful around me.
So what that means to me is that I don’t always reflect Jesus in my life
the way I should. I feel the weight of
that too. How about you? ELGIN
Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)
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