Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Ephesians 4:2-3


2 Living as becomes you] with complete lowliness of mind (humility) and meekness (unselfishness, gentleness, mildness), with patience, bearing with one another and making allowances because you love one another.

The only way for us to live in complete lowliness of mind is to be empowered by the Holy Spirit to have the actual mind of Christ.

For who has known or understood the mind (the counsels and purposes) of the Lord so as to guide and instruct Him and give Him knowledge? But we have the mind of Christ (the Messiah) and do hold the thoughts (feelings and purposes) of His heart. 1 Corinthians 2:16

Jesus knows beyond any shadow of a doubt that He only exist through the power of our Father. He knows that the Two of them are One and that our Father is in complete control of His life. Jesus knows that there is only One Body. The Truth is that because we now are one with Jesus, we are one with His mind. Jesus is our Head, so we feel the exact same way that He feels. We are now one with our Father, who is love, 1 John 4:8. Everything that we are and everything that we have is all because we are one with God. Our Father is in complete control of us, this is as meek as you can be. We can do nothing on our own! To glory in this Truth is what brings us an abundant life, just as Jesus has an abundant life.  

3 Be eager and strive earnestly to guard and keep the harmony and oneness of [and produced by] the Spirit in the binding power of peace.

Once again we are shown that we have the Holy Spirit causing us to love one another. A lot of people don’t know this Truth, but Jesus lives so that we might have His love dwelling within us.

I have made Your Name known to them and revealed Your character and Your very Self, and I will continue to make [You] known, that the love which You have bestowed upon Me may be in them [felt in their hearts] and that I [Myself] may be in them. John 17:26

Our Lord will Shepherd us to love all men with the same power and conviction that He loves all men with. The Holy Spirit will give us the strength to forgive all, regardless of what they have done and regardless of whether they believe that they receive it or not. I have a friend who always wants to talk about judgment and our Father’s justice. What is in abundance in our hearts, our mouths will speak, Luke 6:45. He does this because he has not been empowered yet to see the glory Grace. The Truth is that if our Father was out to get justice, we would all be doomed! If judgment was anything other then forgiveness, we would all be doomed! 

Jesus was empowered by our Father to love and forgive those who lied about Him, who tortured Him, and who killed Him. They did not ask for forgiveness, they did not accept it, and they did not believe that He had the power to do it. Yet, they were forgiven. This is the love that now dwells within us. 

No comments: