I have a confession to make: The deeper I get into things of a heavenly nature the more I have seen my own moral weakness! You see much of my blog effort has been to prove to my readers that the nature of the Christian is realized by knowing his heavenly position; and that is true, but just knowing that fact will not necessarily prove ones place. Its not a separate elite life God is seeking for the believer in knowing position, and all the badgering and attempts explaining the meaning of scripture for establishing a heavenly concept in my readers minds will not be the catalyst to a happy life for them or me, nor will it compensate for the primary deficit in my life, I often find myself in, a lack of walking in fellowship with The Lord Jesus Christ. No my friends even though, by God's will we must be engrossed with the right things of His Word along the way; merely gaining a new vocabulary or scriptural incite, giving up once held notions and thereby leaving behind old ideas, will not always be a solid ground for delivery from our earthly self-containment, on its own. As J.B.Stoney said: "It is that which you give yourself to, not what you have abandoned that colors you and which imparts character to you". So faithful readers let us depart on a new great adventure finding a elevated moral platform on which to stand, leaving the old life and not let the condition we find ourselves in on earth or even in heaven hide Him who is all truth and life. "The Spirit of truth takes of what is mine and will make it known to you" John:16:15.
You may ask, what has morals got to do with it? We all know what a moral code is, simply put, knowing right from wrong; but there is more to learn, as there are two sides to each coin. A moral persuasion can be see in the objective or the subjective. A objective moral is one which is held independent of people's [including one's own] opinion,while the subjective means, just a matter of personal opinion. So if there is a God who made the moral truth of a heavenly position in Christ for us to occupy in fellowship with Him, then we have duties to fulfill, or a moral obligation if you will; this is not subjective, but coming to know those duties in a objective manner might be another matter. Also the entering into fellowship with Christ as a moral design could be elusive outside of a thorough biblical concept of the all important Christian privilege of our "being hidden in Christ". But the object of a true godly moral truth in reality, even when understood, doesn't necessarily mean that observation will not very with individual circumstance and produce different results along the way. I have come to accept this as fact. Well what am I getting at here? Just this: The objective truth of our heavenly position becoming known to the Christian and the application we may apply to have fellowship in knowledge and understanding with the Lord, will not always produce a similar result. I've learned that the hard way. I can now more clearly see that simply because my heart is becoming tuned to a realized moral elevation that God has raised us all to a place of perfection in His Son; a moral distance as far as the east is from the west from the old man of the natural flesh, and which has become completed in Christ; some of my readers might still see this in a subjective view colored by personal opinion and lack of awareness, and that is only natural, as we all have much to learn of the things of God. My hope in writing this blog is none the less to help us all live the defining of our life in the light and perfection and fellowship of the Fathers presence as a firm moral objective and for us all to find our way there even though the paths may vary by God's will for each individual.
The message I am trying to convey in the above, in perhaps a too loquacious way, is to say my blog is changing in tone to a more accommodating standard. The inspiration for which is the realization of my own propensity to merely hear the word and not see it. I know the bible says "faith comes by hearing", but finding myself in the condition of the position I hold in Christ requires also seeing the truth, and in that truth is found the fellowship The Lord has for me, and with all who believe. Thank you for continuing on with me. Lets now get to the moral distance we all desire and will be elevated too as we learn who we are in fellowship with Jesus Christ!
There is a small voice within me that whispers at times when I set out to do the right thing in self determination, to know Christ, bound for the moral distance of faith on my own; it says what if this all is not true? After all faith is immaterial, in ourselves subjective. This is my old man speaking. or perhaps the father of lies himself. However when I reflect upon my past and where I have come from I know I have found Him who brings life, and the beauty of The Son as portrayed in the Word, the clear object, is mine. He could only be a personal Creator God, the true truth. So my faith is proved by my flesh's weakness, even its unbelief. This is where the moral distance is to be advantaged, Jesus came for one such as me, and has made Himself know in my heart and that is where I may fellowship; by the power in Him imparted to me by His Holy Spirit, in Christ, where and how The Father sees me. I must have Him as a new life, in a new creation, by a true faith, or be relegated to a living death, a zombivication of a man on his way to heaven, but conducting his affairs here on earth in a dead mans mind.
The term fellowship, I think, has lost meaning, its too easy, it has now become a lazy mans way of entering in to the Body of Christ. Then theirs communion; which in my mind at least, brings a vision of me down here and Him up there. No I like the word, in concert, for the purpose of explaining my elevated moral distance found in Christ. The definition of in concert is: acting jointly, in agreement, in common purpose. Viewing our Christian life thus might put a new slant on the term fellowship. If one is in concert with Jesus Christ he is together in company, therefore he must see himself where Christ is, nothing else will do. The moral elevation that Jesus has acquired for us by His death upon the cross has brought us complete deliverance from anything which would separate us from The Father, we have fellowship. We are in actual union with the Godhead, in Christ! Paul sought a mark, he was reaching for. Which was his way of saying, his intent was to understand and live his union with Jesus Christ in heaven, here on earth. My friends we too must seek this mark to have true fellowship, be it in union, or concert with the living God. But how can we press toward the mark, if we do not see it? I think largely the Christian world has lost sight of a acquaintance with Christ as a mindset a definition of their being, in union with Him, the person they actually are. In other words the biblical concept of the Spirit occupying our mortal flesh and thus being defined in our mind by its revelation of our position in Christ. I know I chose to not be educated to these facts for many years, resulting in a lower moral distance for my frame of reference . I had no anticipation of the mark to reach, let alone a idea of its meaning. The Word was not formed in me.
How then shall we proceed to our happy destiny; the place of true fellowship? We as humans have the unique ability to alter our frame of reference, in order to change our perception of our life and that which surrounds us. The mastery of our thoughts is one of the most important traits we have to bring about not only a clear perception of things, but enjoyment of life. We use this power all the time and it forms our personality. The bible tells us a man whose thoughts are confused is like a wave tossed about by the sea. Yes my friends we all have troubles and are searching for calmness and clarity, perhaps formed by a new view. Why then not by faith in the Word of God? Which has purposed to alter our souls definition by giving us the opportunity to take on the Spirit of God in the power He has given us in The Son. By in-lighting our mind and thus becoming aware, we may be free to think position in Christ as life, and by our minds new altered view become active possessors of the personality of Jesus Christ; Him as our only object for existence, always in Him possessed. He becomes our object, we are in concert with His thoughts and the place He has provided in His heavenly dwelling becomes our path down here. Leaving behind the cares of the world and old things, and becoming acquainted with your God; who has given us a means to escape the bonds of this world, as a defining requisition of our being, and by faith arrive at the moral distance, the new definition, He has by His death and Resurrection elevated us to!
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