Thursday, January 29, 2009

The Fullness of Time

1 Corinthians 13:11-12

It's like this: When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child does. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. Now we see things imperfectly as in a poor mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God knows me now.

I know you completely, wholly.
I know the number of hairs on your head, I have known you since before you were conceived.
I know you in the fullness of time, for remember to Me a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like a day.
I exist in and outside of your time.
This is how I can know you fully, wholly and completely.
Do you think it is a coincidence that you grow weary of religious activity with no tranformation?
Just as a child wearies of his toys, so I have designed you to grow in Me and weary of religious doings without true change.
As you grow in Me you will put away these childish thoughts.
The notion that you can continue to study, pray, and worship beyond your capacity to obey must end.
Maturity teaches that to know Me, your knowledge is only as deep as your obedience to Me in that knowledge.
All spiritual disciplines are to draw you closer to Me with the purpose of loving a lost world. They are merely tools to be used to know Me, not rewards in themselves.
I am the reward.
Putting away childish things is more about how you think about such things, what your goal is in doing them? to be in activity or to be in Me?
The further you are from Me the less clear all things appear- the closer you move toward Me, the clearer they will appear.
When your human reasoning tells you I am mean or weak then Faith, my gift to you, must pull you closer to Me so that you know that I am all goodness, love and strength.
I am the Creator of ALL - my thoughts are not your thoughts.
There is a good and loving purpose and plan in all I do and in the fullness of My Time, you will see clearly, completely, wholly.
So come to Me, not out of duty or obligation, but out of true desire for relationship with Me.
Allow Me to continue to move you deeper into Me.
Whether I bring you to the Mount of Transfiguration, My death on the Cross, My Resurrection, My Appearing to the Disciples in the Upper Room, the Walk to Emmaus, or the Road to Damascus, look Me full in the face and show Me you love Me by revolving your life around Me.
Be My Follower first and let your life reflect Me.
Then you will give up childish things and you will grow in the Fullness of Me.