He is in us and we are in Him. The seamless union was birthed before time had even started, it was made definitive at the cross and brought to our own individual realities when the Father personally drew us to him and made us aware by Holy Spirit within us. Captivated and embraced, your life is now in perfect harmony in Christ. This is the gospel. That we are one with the Creator of the Universe! As we walk out our everyday lives, His radiant glory simultaneously captivates our hearts as well as the culture around us, bringing glory to the Son who was the exact expression of the invisible Father who lives in him and Jesus within us.
Yet we find ourselves so often frustrated and downcast as our lives remain uneventful and what seems to us as mundane. There is this constant propaganda that is being pushed and preached from all angles in society that to be satisfied we must find our calling, be mission driven and find our destiny that God has for us. It's an on going journey to try to figure out what "God" wants and how one can get there. Blinded by these ideals we hit wall after wall. Usually causing us to get stressed out, lose hope and start to view Papa God as a distant father who is enjoying teasing us while holding a carrot on a stick in front of us leading us around with no real destination.
This life that so many well meaning and pure of heart believers struggle with has now been sold to us as the gospel. ""Accept Jesus" and know that even though he is on your side you will be faced with hard times (always emphasizing the HARD in sermons). You are now in a war and you will be held accountable by your actions so find out what your called to do and give up your lives for that mission." So many believers love this tale because it seems as if we have great importance and control in this life... igniting us to strive onward to better things, to keep getting up when we have been knocked down. Yet after the fan fare wears off and the crowds disperse we are left trying to grasp on for something living in the unknown that we can hopefully show that we are 100% committed to this Christian life!!!!
This is not the gospel. The reason why so many feel the growing burden and constant battle is because they are in a fight that is simply not for them. This distraction drains and causes unnecessary toil while they grasp alone in the darkness for a life they deem to be so unattainable.
Because Jesus reunited US with our Father, no longer are we enemies in our minds, we are now at rest in him because our conscience has been wiped clean. Jesus conquered death for us and gave us His faith so that we can effortlessly, walk with Him hand in hand and drink from the living water that satisfies our every desire and fulfills our every need! He has done it all.... it is finished.
As seen in one of the parables of Luke, the shepherd leaves the 99 sheep that are in the wilderness in urgent pursuit to find and retrieve the one lost sheep that had left the flock; as the shepherd finds him he gently puts the anxiety ridden sheep onto his shoulders allowing the sheep to finally rest his weary legs. The shepherd delighted beyond belief that he is reunited again with his beloved sheep then proceeds to make his way to his home calling to all his family and friends to come and rejoice with great celebration! Every parable with the lost ends with great celebration and being forever united together with their Father! To our extravagant Father, who loves to sing and dance over us all day long, from where he is standing the party has never ended! And now that we are seated with him in heavenly places nor should it end on our side either. The party is for us! We are the bride and Jesus the husband! It's a wedding celebration forever and ever!! We are eternally united and bound to him in perfect oneness! Our seamless union is the joy of the Father who sent Jesus so that all of eternity could be forever celebrated together!!!
Yet, most struggle to grasp this truth. So simple, so freeing and let's be honest what every man, women and child ultimately craves... to not only be accepted for who they are but also to be celebrated and honored, cherished and lavished upon!
Religion sadly has manipulated the simplicity of the gospel in such a way that it distorts not only the core identity as beloved children who are worth so much that the Father would kill the fattened calf just to throw a party for their return. But also has mutated Papa's nature into a harsh task master who only approves when we figure out what "His will" is (let alone walk it out). When one strives out of a place of works this is the reality and mindset that consumes their every thought. Never being good enough. Always having to produce a work to be accepted. This is sadly far from the truth of the gospel.
Our Father had dreamt about who we are in Christ before the world was even in existence. In His eyes we never were separated because He always saw Jesus' righteous union within us. That is why we can celebrate so freely with Him... because He has been celebrating like a party animal for eternity already based on the fact that His will was fulfilled in Jesus' sacrifice on the cross (he was slain before the foundations of the world) and now every moment we realize that our bond is forever sealed in Him, more and more we get to endlessly dive deeper into this love affair! This results in us being right their with Papa jumping for joy and announcing to the world "WE ARE ONE!!!!"
Yet.... we still struggle to get our minds around the truth. The old mindset, those pesky religious thoughts that we thought were true for so long. But in this relationship Papa, Jesus and Holy Spirit want nothing else but to get us to know that they are already so close to us that they welcome us to come along with them as they renew our old mindsets. Once we welcome their invitation they intimately and so lovenly go into every area of our lives revealing to us how great His love is and how much he cares for us even in the trauma and pain. You see, not only did he enter into our humanity, pain, and death 2,000 years ago but he continues to do so today with every person individually. Because he knows that for us to be able to grasp the full reality of our union with Him he must first come and walk through our lives where we might be concealing the secret locked rooms in our heart. Through this process he embraces everything we had deemed as unlovable, unforgivable and unhealable area in our life and with great embrace he reveals his true joy for us and glorious power of love that he has in us. This is where we meet him face to face everyday!! Every moment as we come into communion with our Papa, we see clearly who we truly are.
So many are seeking to DO things for God. Service projects, missions work, even prophesying and healing the sick. Those things are not wrong or not God's desire in any way! But when we pursue that as the gospel, as we pursue "OUR calling" to find what God wants with us we will only fall and sink deep into striving and in turn depression mentality. Because those things will never truly show you the person of Jesus. You will never know the nature of God by doing. Only through intimately getting to know his Will of Jesus the incarnation.... Jesus now in you the hope of glory, can reveal His being and open your eyes to the super charged life that is within you!
Because you see God's true will and desire is that you see who you are in Him! Jesus came to defeat death so that we can be forever in union with Him! So seamless that all dualistic mindsets and separation attitudes fall off the grid. YOU were the joy that was set out before Jesus as he pursued the cross! And now.... You and Him are forever united!!!! Intertwined, saturated with His love. For you to understand your place in the family with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is what ignites the Father's heart more so because that is where you will then see as if in a mirror! Perfect, holy, joyous friendship with the Father who always sees your best side!!! You will reflect your Father's nature as you see your new nature interlocked with Him! You will walk daily like Jesus because you see how Jesus already intimately walks with you! You will be overflowing with joy, hope, peace and love because Holy Spirit will always be consuming your mind!
Yet it's hard to grasp our minds around this fairy tale on steroids as some may call it! And that is where Jesus says boldly, "To learn this well, unless you dramatically change your way of thinking and become teachable, and learn about heaven's kingdom realm, the way a LITTLE child learns, you will never be able to enter in. Whoever humbles himself to become like this gentle child is the greatest one in heavens kingdom realm."
We must become little children. That is our place in the family!When a newborn child is placed in a mother's arms for the first time she holds the child that she has long dreamt of, sings over the perfect creation that seamlessly looks just like her and the father, and she gives the infant nutrients that will satisfy the child's hunger and thirst causing the little one to grow and thrive. It is in this mundane and none exciting moments of life where the child learns early on what their parent sounds like, feels like, looks like and smells like. What takes place in the day in and day out of a child resting in their mothers arms creates such an intense bond, love, adoration for one another it is impossible to break. For the child this bond starts the foundations of trusting which then gives the infant the security to learn and try new things and the understanding that if they fall their parents will be joyfully clapping their hands as they encourage them to get back up. This is why we need to be like LITTLE children.
This gospel is so simple yet it is so deep that the ways of the old "knowledge" based mindset cannot comprehend. But Papa knows that when we come to Him humbly as like a little child comes to their Mama and says, " I don't understand grace! I don't understand how not to strive! I don't understand how to have union with you! I don't get any of this! Please help me! Please renew my mind so that I can freely embrace you back as you have always embraced me!" As a good father would, he will set you on a course of intimately embracing you right where you are and flood you with his wisdom and love that comes from the joy in his heart!!!!
This is the gospel. We are one. His seamless union is his beautiful will that will cause the world to be shaken as it was when the disciples first got ahold of this pure unadulterated gospel. As we see the true reality of our sonship missions will happen through us, service projects will take place, and orphans will be brought into homes because we are in Him... resulting in wonderful life giving rest and joy!!!
