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written by Michael McBane

I am writing from the pretext that Christ Jesus is our example. He is our footsteps, He goes before us and it is a command that we follow. So in this rather short piece I begin by asking all how firm do we hold onto who we are, what we have and how we live?

Jesus lived among men. He was not lofty but He understood the good, the bad and the ugly of who men were. He came to eradicate the bad and the ugly. Jesus not only leaned upon the Father He saturated His will with the will of the Father and incorporated that with the influence of the Holy Spirit in HIm. Did Jesus walk in His own way? I think not He had opportunity but He saw beyond that which faced Him and held Him in a temporary place. He therefore consistently reconciled with His Fathers love and the objective of redemption overflowed.

Consider:
“For I have come down from heaven not to do My own will and purpose but to do the will and purpose of Him Who sent Me. And this is the will of Him Who sent ME, that I should not lose any of all that He has given Me, but that I should give new life and raise them up (them all) on the last day.” John 6: 38 - 39 AMP.

In these words Jesus is confident not in Himself but in His Fathers will. This is the weave of intent that brings the resolve to remain in love and to define love as it has never been. He states that He being in the Father knows that the Father will draw men unto Christ. It is the fulcrum of the two being one that constitutes a revelation that brings the determination to love not HIs life for He knew that it reached beyond.

Do we know where God is going? The scriptures tell us it is imperative that we search out the will of God so that we walk in cadence with HIm. But in Luke 22, Jesus tells Peter who He has chosen and who has been walking with Him this, When you are converted then go and strengthen your brothers. Wow.. this should turn some lights on. Our continual conversion is to step away from our own self preservation. We cannot truly serve one another when our identities are wrapped in the preservation of who we are outside of living and loving Christ. We are denying life. Our acceptance is not in the temporal titles that religion assigns to many or that so many feel compelled to adapt to, like I am apostle, I am this or that. I ask and so does God who are you? I have heard the Lord say this to me when I have done something that I am not happy about, He will say, I don’t know you that way. It blows me away. Perceptions endanger us or free us. 

Do we trust that the Father has drawn us to Christ? This is a big and broad statement that rubs against the conditions of our present doctrines of thought. For if we ask for something how often to we reject what comes has not being the real answer. We reject and we reject the rest and trust God set before us to step into HIm. We must change the habits that false perceptions have fostered, we must learn to know that Father is calling us to Him and to the place that allows for the reality of His Kingdom to be seen.