Bren Ward
October 19, 2024
1 John 4:8, Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
“He who does not love has not become acquainted with God [does not and never did know Him], for God is love."
The Highest Calling of God (who is the Spirit of Love):
The resurrected Spirit of Jesus the Christ (through His Disciples) throughout time invites everyone to have a living relationship with our Creator. The Spirit of our Father chose to manifest His essence and will to us through Jesus, confirming the fulfillment of a prophetic promise of a redeemer Son born of Abba's Father's Spirit to be the second Adam. With a spiritual mystery revealed, such can be spiritually discerned through studying the language of the Spirit.
According to Father's plan for Humanity, established before the Foundations of the world, Jesus was given birth to become the one who redeems humanity from spiritual death and its consequences. He is the firstborn from the dead sent to proclaim the good news of reconciliation, another aspect of the gospel of our Father; gospel means good news.
When we embrace the truth Jesus reveals as our own, we discover we have become eternal spiritual beings who have entered into an eternal covenant God offers to everyone. We find ourselves becoming at one with our Father's heart, desiring to live in the Spirit and in Truth, while still in this vessel of flesh – desiring to love as our Father loves through us.
As we dwell with our Father daily, the spirit of our mind is renewed with words of eternal life that nourish our soul and strengthen our spirit. They transform and regenerate us beginning within our heart, a heart that is changed by our Father's unconditional love.
As we choose to walk in the Spirit and listen for the voice of our “Abba” Father to commune within, we are led deeper into His Kingdom with fresh understanding. The secrets of God are experienced as our present truth. Each day, we are spiritually fed, line upon line, precept upon precept, as old ways of thinking and being begin to fall away and lose their negative influence over us.
As we are matured, His peace, joy, and righteousness (right ways of thinking and being) becomes the fruit we and others feed upon– as even more fruits of the Spirit of God are developed in us through our choices of love, patience, kindness, faithfulness, tolerance, goodness, gentleness, and self-control.
Those who hunger and thirst after the Truth of God, His righteousness (Justice that conforms our hearts as a gift of grace) and who we are or can be as His legacy are fulfilled, overcome by His Spirit within. We become mature sons and daughters of the Most High … ‘Overcomers who receive the blessings of God, beginning in our now’. Such a one is acknowledged as the true church ... a living organic being who is evolving as they mature in the Spirit.
Some of us experience ourselves as a vital part of the spiritual body of Christ– as a spiritual son being matured as we are discipled. Others also experience ourselves as an aspect of the bride of Christ through a double portion anointing. As the new Jerusalem, we are likened to a city set upon a hill that shines forth the Light of God within. It beckons all to enter into the rest of God, to abide in Christ, His living words and the Kingdom of heaven now.
Such a one proclaims the good news, Father's love cannot be earned, nor destroyed. We declared before the foundations of the world a divine plan was established, it is unfolding, bringing about a new heaven and a new earth in time as in eternity, beginning within our heart and mind.
Does your soul hunger for more of the Bread of Life? Does your spirit thirst for Living Waters that quench? If so, seek first to enter into the Kingdom of God in your now and all else will be added. Abide not with those who cannot enter in. Choose to abide in Christ and His living words with those who have already entered. In the doing you will find rest deep within, you will find love deep within, you will find truth deep within, you will find the Holy Spirit leading you into all truth from deep within, as you are given eyes to see from our Father's eternal perspective.