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Posted: 10/31/2012 at 2:42pm
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Falling in Love Again
By Ron McGatlin
Sudden disruptions to the life we have grown accustom to and largely taken for granted can cause us to reevaluate what our lives are really about. Literally millions of people can awaken one morning to find themselves in a very different life situation. Their daily routines and schedules of the past suddenly are just not there anymore.
Life suddenly appears much less consistent than we subconsciously believed just yesterday. Through the turmoil of destructive storms, religious/political wars, wildfires, earthquakes, and other cataclysmic events, multitudes are experiencing the sudden loss of homes, family members, jobs, and almost everything that was familiar in their lives.
If our lives consist in, or if they are built around these temporal things that today are and tomorrow may disappear like a vapor, we may not make it through times of extreme change. We may lose our purpose for living when major life changing events occur. When we lose that which we loved and lived for there seems no reason for us to desire to live on.
That which we love is our treasure. Jesus said, “For where you treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
What we treasure, where our heart is, becomes the first focus or desire of our lives. It becomes the substance of our lives, our reason for living and who we are.
At this present time probably most of the people of the world treasure the things of natural life. Their affection is set on the things of natural life.
There can be a good side to the dreaded loss of the things of natural life that we love. Cataclysmic events can be a part of a process of changing the love and affections of our lives to higher spiritual reality that cannot be taken away.
Col 3:2: Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
We are to treasure (love) spiritual things from heaven (from the realm of the Spirit, things of God). Our life is to consist in the Spirit realm. The Spirit of love creates a whole new order of life in us. Jesus spoke of laying up treasure in heaven (Spirit realm). We have full access now in this life to the spiritual treasure (things we love) that we have lain up in heaven. This is NOT something to experience only after we pass from this life.
Mat 6:19-20: Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust does corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal. But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust does corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.
The Great Transition
The greatest transition of all time is upon the people who are alive in the world in this current season.
Jesus came preaching a higher different life of spiritual eternal kingdom reality of love life that would never be lost or destroyed. A love life to treasure with our whole hearts that nothing could take away from those who would believe and fully enter.
The one and only thing we can center our lives upon that will never fail and cannot be taken from us is God and His kingdom of love. Christ and His kingdom are eternal. We will never wake up one morning to find that His love and His kingdom have disappeared and left us alone. There will never be a day when He is not sufficient. Everything else of this world that we may have sought after and trusted in may very well seem to just evaporate and no longer be there for us. However, His love will never fail, and His kingdom will never end.
Many who do not yet love and trust the Lord and the life of the Spirit from above more than they love and trust in the things of natural life will lose even that which they do have (things of natural life). This is not a punishment from God but rather the love of God bringing the multitudes to a place of losing their love for and trusts in the things of natural life and turning to love God and the things of the Spirit. Those who have not the love of God will lose even what they have. Those who have love of God will be given more.
Luke 19:26: For I say unto you, That unto everyone who has shall be given; and from him that has not, even what he has shall be taken away from him.
Unfortunately, as long as the other things that people seek and trust in more than God’s kingdom seem to be working for them, they will not turn to God with their whole hearts and seek His kingdom and His righteousness first above all else. Therefore, the most loving thing God can do is to cause the other things that the people have sought after and trusted in to fail.
In the past, God graciously has given us great blessings and gifts to demonstrate His mercy and love to draw us to come to Him with our whole hearts. Yet, many of the people of the world have looked upon the blessings of God and said something like, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth (Deut 8:17) and turned away from God to the gods of self and pleasure.
The season is now for the spiritual kingdom of God to be raised up on the earth by Christ in His people by the Spirit of God. There is now a worldwide remnant people being prepared to walk in the kingdom and to receive the harvest of many who will turn to God and His kingdom way with their whole hearts after that which they have previously sought and trusted in has failed.
Arise and Shine for Your Light has Come
If you are part of that kingdom remnant, be of great courage and boldness of Spirit to step into the powerful loving places of service as sons of the kingdom and joint heirs with Christ. Allow the Spirit of Christ in you to be fully released to do and be all that He desires in and through your life.
Do not be misled by those who would seek to turn you back to the powerless ways of past religious church systems.
Christ in you is radical and without limitations. In pure humble love and faith simply release ALL that He has put into you and all He will put into you in the desperate days ahead.
Do not fear the darkness. The light in you shall shine forth to blend with the light from others into a blaze of the glory of God the world has never before experienced.
You cannot bring the past with you into the future, and you cannot drag those who will not come into the glory of the kingdom.
What if Abraham had stayed in his homeland and not obeyed God and set out in search of the city of God, the New Jerusalem that is today coming down in the Spirit from above?
New Jerusalem, the ruling city of the kingdom of God on earth is being formed by the Spirit on earth. The Bride is making herself ready. We must complete our part of this journey of love. Simply hear and see what God is saying and doing and move in full obedience to the Spirit who is revealing our lives in the kingdom of God in this season.
His love never fails and
His kingdom never ends.
Ron McGatlin
archive.openheaven.com
basileia@earthlink.net
Edited by News Room on 11/01/2012 at 4:55am
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Topic: FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN
