Christ

a heart’s Prized Possession

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Reading the story of Sabina Wurmbrand.  The assurance of faith to stand as some have before another in moments of persecution and hate and say, yes Christ is more real than anything in this world, and yes HE IS MINE.  ohhh, His heart to become my Sure Stronghold.  My faith’s Resting Place! And HOW I know He longs to reveal this heart so full of love & a Father’s embrace to His children!

Am I now, without a shadow of a doubt,

Forgiven eternally, with a name written in His book of books,

His child?

What of when I seem to have no new nature, and feel the weight of the old pulling me back down?

What of when I know no definite moment when my soul knew its need FOR Jesus?

Pondering this, these three questions probe my heart…

Does He speak to you consistently thru His Word?

Do you find the power to triumph over sin & temptation in the daily struggles of your own home/abroad?

Is there a desire deep in your own soul to know Christ, to love Christ, to serve Christ?

In these, my soul finds a stillness of gratitude.  His peace becomes mine.  I turn to my soul’s enemy and boldly say,

Glory, hallelujah!!  I am His.

J. Eldredge:

“The Big Lie in the church today is that you are nothing more than “a sinner saved by grace.” You are a lot more than that. You are a new creation in Christ. The New Testament calls you a saint, a holy one, a son of God. In the core of your being you are a good man. Yes, there is a war within us, but it is a civil war. The battle is not between us and God; no, there is a traitor within who wars against our true heart fighting alongside the Spirit of God in us: A new power is in operation. The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death . . . Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won’t know what we’re talking about. But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells . . . if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he’ll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus . . . When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. (Rom. 8:2–3, 9–11 The Message) The real you is on the side of God against the false self. Knowing this makes all the difference in the world.” 

WHAT DOES GOD MOST DESIRE from His creation? From you? From me? Isn't this the question we ask ourselves as His children? How can I please Him . . . serve Him . . . glorify Him? 

"We've been offered many explanations [to this question]. From one religious camp we're told that what God wants is obedience, or sacrifice, or adherence to the right doctrines, or morality. [Other churches] suggest that no, God is after our contentment, our happiness, our self-actualization, or something else along those lines. He is concerned about all these things, of course, but they are not his primary concern.

What he is after is US . . . 

. . . our laughter 

. . . our tears 

. . . our dreams 

. . . our fears 

. . . our heart of hearts."

I am convinced beyond a doubt of this: God wants to be loved. 

He wants to be a priority to someone. How could we have missed this? 

From cover to cover, from beginning to end, the cry of God's heart is, "Why won't you choose Me?" It is amazing to me how humble, how vulnerable God is on this point. 

"You will . . . find me," says the Lord, "when you seek me with all your heart" (Jer. 29:13). In other words, "Look for me, pursue me -- I want you to pursue me." Amazing. 

As Tozer says, "God waits to be wanted.”