ALIENS IN A FOREIGN LAND

            The amazing thing about our God is that He lives His Life through us despite our very sin nature. Faith says He uses His Grace to conduct His life and love thru us by extending Himself Spiritualty in the allowance of using our sin and sin's to further the forming of we His children into His Son's image. All without His hand in any way touching sin which is simply a impossibility anyway. All of this foreordained by God for Himself that He might insure our observation of His Sons life as we look upon our own. Of course this kind of life can only be found in a state of mind by faith.

      Are we to believe that that is true? We'll at this point I simply have no other choice as His life is becoming my state of mind, so that's good enough for me. Which makes constant growth of vital importance to maintain it clearly, I've found. That's why I write this blog. I wish to always clarify my understanding so I put it in writing. Which forces me to contemplate God's Word. And by my sending it out I am held hostage to some accountability. Of course I take great license there, as do all writers.

      I used I so many times in the last paragraph that He is now showing me that it is not I but He that is life and I want in only His. The only problem is the more I gain understanding the more I see that we are truly aliens in a foreign land. We are trapped in the accouterments of the flesh or the natural element, which favors sin, as well as being instilled with the motives of the world system.

     It's actually very reassuring to look at my sin and see it for what it is. A condition I must contend with yet I am reassured in the knowledge from His Word I can live above that condition by resting in God's Grace; knowing He is making use of my very sin for His ultimate Glory. Which I am well assured is true by simply reading His Word.

    Now the pleasure is all mine to live it; as joy is often my experience these days. There is no need to dwell on the negative or the world condition, even my feelings, as His will be done and all for one purpose. That I might know Christ as life. So I have security that my person hood and path is only leading toward more integration of my soul's understanding with the beauty of His Love. Again all remaining in reassurance of this is maintained by reading His Word, never works or emotions.

   Peter said of the Christian that; "we are a royal priesthood, a chosen generation, a holy nation, a peculiar people". But for what purpose did God make us that way? "That we should show forth the praises of Him who called you into such a marvelous light" 1 Pet. 2:9. The Word also says; we are sojourners, pilgrims and that the earth is a alien place for us. It seems the Christian life is not merely a converted life or even a consecrated one, but it is actually Christ Jesus' life we are living. This is the unstoppable all consuming desire of Christ to live His very life through us. And He does! Welcome to the neighborhood stranger!