Friday, April 21, 2017

Your Life Is A Mirror - Whose Reflection Do People See?



Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? —John 14:9

{CHAMBERS} “Our Lord must be repeatedly astounded at us— astounded at how “un-simple” we are. It is our own opinions that make us dense and slow to understand, but when we are simple we are never dense; we have discernment all the time. Philip expected the future revelation of a tremendous mystery, but not in Jesus, the Person he thought he already knew. 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. And while others see the evidence, the child of God does not."

{ELGIN}  If you want to be like Jesus then you must do what Jesus did.  What did He do?  He put His full trust in the Father, and obeyed the Father in all things.  Impossible you say? Possible I say, but it requires that we lay our lives down at the foot of the cross … every day.  Don’t expect perfection. If that were possible, then you could be Jesus .. but you are not.  You are a sinner saved by Grace, enlivened by the Spirit.  It is no longer you who lives, but Christ in you. (Galatians 2:20).  Our lives are short … a vapor … a grain of sand in the sands of time … but it is God’s intent to use that grain to bring glory to Him through His Son.  Having trouble with believing that people can see Jesus by looking at you?  If you want to be like Jesus then you must do what Jesus did.  What did He do?  He put His full trust in the Father and obeyed the Father in all things.  So how is that going for you?

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