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We listened today to a major portion of an audio book received last week from our friends in Elk Grove. It is by a man named Wayne Jacobsen, who just has a really cool view on life in the Kingdom. I believe you can get all his books at amazon.com, or check his blog page, linked here on mine (down to the right a bit…)
Something he said in Chapter 5 really caught my ear tonight, and I wanted to share it with you before I went to bed…
“You’ll trust Him only to the degree that you are certain of His love for you.”
That is SO TRUE. The root of our faith, of our trust in our Father is understanding how high and deep and long and wide is the love of Jesus for us. He loves us not based on what we do for him, or if we continue in that, but only because we are his. He made us, and wants so badly to have a relationship with us, that he gave his life to prove it.
When we let that sink in, we can really begin to trust him, eh? If God had lots of requirements on us before we can hang out with him, or even before he was hung on a cross to die… it would be a bit harder to trust him. If he was a big scary unpredictably vengeful God… he’d be harder to trust.
But Paul said we have been given a spirit by which we call him Abba, Father. And Jesus compared us to God’s children, whom He loves to please…
It’s not all about life on easy street for us… it’s all about life in the full assurance that we are accepted and loved by our Creator, who thought we were worth suffering an agonizing death on a cross.
Once we are confident in his love, we can really trust him. When we really trust him, we see him work in our lives and we love him more. Which leads to deeper trust… which leads to more relationship, which leads to more love…
You get the point.
I thought that was quite insightful. More from the book later…
(I need to sleep! 761.1 miles kinda drains ya! It was exactly 16 hours in the van today!)