John 14:20 – At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.
This passage can show us how to live the impossible life that Jesus taught us to live. You could sum up all of the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus in two very simple truths: 1. Love the Lord with all of your heart, soul, and strength. 2. Love fellow humans, your neighbor, like yourself. This is not a hard task but a totally impossible one. First, our fallen nature just doesn’t love God or want to follow Him. Secondly, in our present state as humans we just don’t want to be bothered with other people, we have enough on our plate with our own stuff. When the Holy Spirit enters our lives all of this begins to change, we now love the Lord more than anyone or anything else. We also have a change in regard to humans. The beautiful work of grace we have tasted for ourselves has to be shared with everybody. Here is how Edwards describes this.
“Tis he that sanctifies created spirits, that is, he gives them divine love: for the Scripture teaches us that all holiness and true grace and virtue is resolvable into that, as its universal spring and principle. As it is the office of the person that is God’s idea and understanding to be the light of the world, to communicate understanding, so ’tis the office of the person that is God’s love to communicate divine love to the creature. In so doing, God’s Spirit or love doth but communicate of itself. ’Tis the same love, so far as a creature is capable of being made partaker of it. God’s Spirit, or his love, doth but as it were come and dwell in our hearts and act there as a vital principle, and we become the living temples of the Holy Ghost; and when men are regenerated and sanctified, God pours forth of his Spirit upon them, and they have fellowship or, which is the same thing, are made partakers with the Father and Son of their good, i.e. of their love, joy and beauty. Thus the matter is represented in the gospel.”
If we only knew….. if we only knew the greatness and grace of the One who lives within us. We were once dead following our own foolish ambitions until that great day happened for us, now we have been born again and Christ is busily involved in all that we say or do. He is at work deep down inside of you. What is His ambition? He wants His life to be seen and lived through each of us.
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Just as our homes if left unkempt inside begins to be layered with dust, the blemishes of a life lived, things left unattended in the corners, so it is with our skin suit along with our thoughts, the things that make up our uniqueness as individuals. Idleness and selfishness are in direct opposition to God’s work flowing through each of us. The way I see it, we must follow both Mary and Martha’s examples, finding a way through every season.