This life isn't just about this life. As big and as complicated as this life is, it's really just a set up for what God has planned next.
This is about what's in the heart of the Lord God Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, Owner of all life and of all eternity. He is the One and Only God. There is no other. there is no equal. He really really wants you with Him in His eternal heaven where He can love on you, enjoy you, and indulge the passion of His heart in you. That's why He made you.
But there's one major issue. That issue is the contamination of sin that separates us from Him. It must be dealt with first.
The Lord doesn't get right with you on your terms. You get right with Him on His terms...or it doesn't happen. There's only one way to get right with Him. That's through the sacrificial death and resurrected life of His Son, our Lord Jesus.
Humanity’s fallen nature goes far beyond ungodly words and sinful actions. Its roots go down into the soul where they make themselves at home in our motives, attitudes, and secret thoughts. To clear out the visible sin in our lives, God must remove and replace the underlying roots. He’ll do that for you if you ask Him to.
The goal of this life can't be about bending God's heart to my ways; the goal must be to bend my heart to God's ways. Let me say that again: The goal of this life can't be about bending God's heart to my ways; the goal must be to bend my heart to God's ways.
I’m going to go off theme here for a moment. I sense the Holy Spirit wants me to share this now.
Every abortion is an abomination to God's heart. Aborting innocent, helpless babies was never part of God’s original plan for His creation. That needs a bigger discussion that I’m hoping to share another time. There's a long list of things that are abominations to God’s heart. Abortion is horribly wrong, but it isn’t the only abomination out there.
Okay, that’s what I feel the Holy Spirit telling me to say. Now back to my main theme.
Whatever is corrupted and incompatible with the pure agape of heaven can't exist in heaven. Whatever is not pure cannot not possibly exist in the purity of His agape presence.
Most people think that God's job is to make sure they have a pleasant life. It's not. His job is to complete and fulfill His own plans, dreams, hopes and purposes.
I crave losing myself in caring about His heart. That's the kind of man I want to be. The Almighty Jesus has thought it all through, the big and the small. As long as His plans and heart's desires are fulfilled, I am totally okay, better than totally okay. Immeasurably better than okay. That's exciting.
He wants you to be happy but knows that ultimately comes only with being fully in harmony and compatible with His essence.
The pure simplicity of trusting Him will overflow in your life as you grow in it. Your path in Him is absolutely loaded with unknowns and surprises, but He is trustworthy.
You have ideas about what's good for you, but your ideas don't even come close in glory or detail to the Lord's ideas.
The Lord's thought towards you are immeasurably more important, valuable, and life-giving than your ideas about what's good for you. What He has in store for you is far better than anything you could come up with.
The Lord's hopes and plans for you are for now through eternity. They are far more important and far more detailed than your hopes and plans for you.
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