When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.Jacob Boehme (1575-1624, German mystic)
Romans 16:25-27
Now to Him who has power to strengthen you according to my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the sacred secret kept silent for long ages, but now revealed and made known through the prophetic Scriptures, according to the command of the eternal God, to advance the obedience of faith among all nations—to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ—to Him be the glory forever! Amen. (HCSB)
God has given those of us who are called by the name of His most Holy Son, a purpose in this world as “Christians.” The reason that we are fall under that description is because we have the same idea, the same purpose and the same goals that Christ had when He came to this earth. Our purpose is to advance “The Obedience of Faith.”
If we are so filled with our calling to this world, we will miss the calling that our Father has placed on our lives. He tells us plainly in His Word that our lives are not our own, but we were bought with a price, and we are to “Glorify God,” in these bodies. We were ransomed, we were, redeemed; God Himself paid our debt, and set us free.
There was no one else, or nothing else that could procure the price of life itself. Only the precious blood of our Savior, withdrawn from the vaults of heaven by God Himself, could purchase life eternal. It is now our purpose to proclaim Christ, to advance faith, and obedience to scripture, and to reveal the “secret” to a fallen world. The secret was kept quiet for ages, but it is a secret no more, to Him be the Glory, forever…God’s Blessings.
Pastor William
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