Set Apart, Not Set Aside

in #jesuslast year (edited)

-He said, “Leave; for the girl has not died, but is asleep.” And they began laughing at Him, knowing that she had died.

-and will hand Him over to the Gentiles to mock and scourge and crucify Him, and on the third day He will be raised up.”

-Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and were scoffing at Him.

-In the same way the chief priests also, along with the scribes, were mocking Him among themselves and saying, “He saved others; He cannot save Himself.

He saved others.

He cannot save Himself.

Such rich and layered meanings here.

'His blood be on us and on our children.' -- What has been said in anger will be turned into the most merciful phrase in existence. God is able to glorify anything He so wishes.

Our Brother Paul is a testament to it.

God said 'Look at the nations and watch— and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.'

He did tell us. He has always told us.

The Plan, from the 10 Commandments to Levitical teachings, to the presentation of His Son in final sin offering, to the merciful bestowing of the Holy Spirit upon His Elect...'all you have to do' is believe and make an earnest effort to walk with Christ. God could not have made dwelling with Him forever easier. And to thwart who hunts Us we were given the Armor of God, because that will come.

"If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me."

"If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin."

All my 43 years I was ignorant of what was spoken 'to them.' A heathen girl slowly introduced to Christ through His Voice. Yet He found a way to get to me and get me to Him. He can move mountains, He can give wisdom to those who ask for it.

To this day He still gets nails driven into His flesh, He still gets spit upon and mocked. Perhaps that's why in Revelation He first appears as the Lamb as it had been slain. His persecution hasn't ended. And if we are His body we're logically a part of that persecution and mocking. We share in His suffering. We are amazed at lack of faith. We are also amazed at the 'something He did in our days that we would not believe, even if we were told.'

I don't want to not burn in the Lake of Fire for Eternity because it doesn't sound like a good time.

I want to spend Eternity with God, who has been gracious to me. Every day is another opportunity to come closer to Him while I can't 'see' Him but I see every footprint He has left here on earth. And I feel His Spirit within me. I don't want to be separated from what has freed me from affliction and anxiety and sin.

Always been a lover of anticipation anyhow. A cherisher of things unseen.

'By Faith.' Hebrews 11. There are quite a few tour de forces in the bible but this is what I live for. And will die for.

I cannot speak much on what's weighing on my heart lately but I have a message for Babygirl:

When you cannot trust your blood trust The Spirit.
When questions like 'would you like to save her life with me?' are answered with 'If there's a plan I will' instead of 'Absolutely, what can I do to make that happen?' know that someone much more able can step in and save your life.
When anyone dismisses you with labels that help them sleep at night know that you've been set apart by God to be ministered to by angels instead.
Know that you have Brothers & Sisters disguised here as Fathers and Stepmoms.
When you suffer trial know that you should feel joy because God is making sure that you lack nothing as He is both bringing you closer to Him and testing your Faith.
Know that His Power is one that makes that which attempts to afflict you tremble and flee before Him.
Know that God is for you and nothing can be against you.

Nothing.