Abba, Father, I …

This post is  really a comment as to whether someone can “blindly trust” the Lord.

The simple answer is Yes and No.

If disciple of one lord Krishna said the lord could give me eternal life, and i know nothing about this lord, and i trust him, this is “blind” trust. Will my trust  work? Nobody knows. Depends on the powers of this lord.

For any religion (  else except a trust in the  Lord Jesus ) yes, someone may blindly trust. And the proof of the pudding is in “did it work”?.

But when it comes to Trustig Christ, someone who  has never heard anything about Him or had a history with Him may show what appears to be blind trust, but on further examination, this trust turns out to be not so blind after all. For the Christian, that “did it work” is what the Bible is all about. If one totally believes it, as is, then it  is no longer possible to blindly trust. You have evidence. Read on.

Faith comes by hearing

The same illustration we had above applies to the Christian scenarion. An evangelist  comes  and tells me that he met a certain man named Jesus Christ, and that this Christ gives eternal life and love and peace, and that he can do it for me. I can “blindly” trust that Christ, and await the result of this Christ to show in me. Will it work? Again, it depends on the powers of this Christ.

Aside: Before we continue and as a tip for the read, notice that my being attracted to be interested in Christ does not happen in a vacuum. And for me to “believe” in this Christ, i need help from above:

“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. ( John 6:44)

This i a continuation of “What is God doing nowadays?“.

Now that we Christian have the power to move things along or be moved by the Hand of God as He does His work of moving things along, how do we ensure that we do not deviate from the work that He is doing through us?

Here is an illustration i got from somewhere.

Easy battle. Enjoyable work.

I was in this place. Where, i do not know. It was dark all around but there was enough light that you could see shapes in the darkness. All around a battle was raging. But the fighting was with words. Speak the word, and the enemies who you could see coming at you would be pushed back.  The intersting thing is that whether they were many or few, i managed to always push them back. And this went on and on, but i never tired.

In the second scene, the  battle is now done, and the fighters regrouped. Everyone came around to share what their work was all about. Every worker was excited about what he did, and was overly excited when explaining the details of what they did. And each person was eager to recruit more people to go  join them in doing what they ( the worker) was doing. It seemed, each person had the perfect job.

Here is the interpretation of that illustration.

Hard work, yet effortless, untiring

How is that even possible, to do a hard job and not be tired? Because, as we said in the last post, it is not you that is doing the working, but it is the Father ( through His Spirit) who is  working through you, the vessel of his choice.

Therefore, it is impossible to burn out!

³¹ But those who wait on the LORD
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint. ( Isaiah 40:31 NKJV)

Secondly, that work  you are moved to do for the Lord, you want to do it all your life, and you enjoy it so much you would recommend and recruit others to join you. It is not a chore, or like these 9-5 jobs people do, that one gets  paid for. For these type of jobs, most people live for Friday or payday ( Payday is great, of course).

No, it is living, a lifestyle one enjoys.

Apostle Paul had completed his task and given a chance to leave the earth. Paul’s  life on earth was full of hardships and persecution. He  really ought to have jumped at the chance of retirement  and be with the Lord ( after all the Lord had told him that he was done). He instead chose to stay on and assist the new Christians. This is because he enjoyed his assignments.

I have done this
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When not at “war” and lazing about, do you ever wonder at some things about God, such as today’s topic? Have you ever wondered what the Lord God is doing in this 21st century? Isn’t creation done? Is He just sitting yonder “cloud” relaxing?

Here is what i found out.

And God finished all His work

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. ( Gen. 1.1 NKJV)

We all know this. But we are not at the beginning. Furthermore, it is recorded that

¹ Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. ² And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

He basically said “It is finished!”.

To the Jews, God was done with all His work. He rested. He told them so. They held it so.

So they observed the sabbath religiously. Fervently, almost to the point of worship of the day. They followed the sabbath law so perfectly that it controlled them. Man now served the sabbath, rather than the other way round. They missed the spirit behind it.

Fast forward to the time of Jesus Christ.

“My Father is Still working”

Jesus comes along and began saying and doing things in rather bizarre ways. One, He claims that He Himself is their one and only God ( not another, but the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The Father Himself. The great I AM. Needless to say, they cannot stand it, and seek to kill Him, as Moses commanded). Secondly, He breaks their holiest of laws, sabbath, by working on the sabath!

And here we  get a glimpse of what God was doing in the 0th century:

¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.” (John 5: 17)

He claims the Father is still working! Of course they  ” … sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.”

And then, of course, He does the ultimate work, dying for man.  Finally, the deed is done. It is finished!

He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit. ( John 19:30)

So He ascends and sits down. He is done. No  more work remains for Him, it would appear.

No man worketh but the Spirit
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In the last post, i mentioned three conditions needed for someone to be able to “create” things out of “nothing”, as the Lord God does.

They are:

• You must be born again.
• You must be Spirit filled.
• You must be on speaking terms with the Lord Jesus Christ.

Is it possible to cause things to happen outside of those three conditions? Yes. But the worker behind such works is then obvioulsy not Jesus Christ. It is another god. It is in all likelihood the god of this world, the devil.

Today i will offer more passages to expound ( and hopefully convice the doubtful ) on this ability that all children of God have.

Jesus: “As the Father is, so i am”

Some background :

Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. ⁴⁷When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.

⁴⁹The royal official said, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” (John 4:46-49 NIV)

Sick and close to death, but Jesus says: “Go your way; your son lives.”  (v50 NKJV)

Why is He capable of this? He explains why it is possible:

For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel. ²¹ For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will. ( John 5: 20,21 NKJV)

And

²⁶ For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself,

That is, the Father, who creates by  saying “Let there be”, gave to Him-Jesus Christ- while he was on earth as a human ( or the son of man ) the same creative powers and authority.

And He used these powers within the will of His Father :

“Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. ( John 5:19)

But you probably knew this already.

Me: As Jesus is, so am i

Once you believe in Christ, you have been elevated to the child of God status ( a position, i must add, that is  far greater than that which the angels  of God or Lucifer have!)

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: ¹³ who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. ( John 1:12,13)

Not only that, He also gives you the same powers that He had while He was here on earth:

¹⁹ Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. ( Luke 10:19)

So that, you can also say “let this go away!”

²¹ So Jesus answered and said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ it will be done. ²² And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” (Matthew 21:21,22)

So why have i not moved a mountain?

The power is there. The authority is there. So, how comes i have not moved any mountain?

Perhaps it is because you have not matured enough to be able to rightfully wield the power.

Have you ever fantasized about moving a literal mountain “just to see”? Or, thought how cool it would be to be able to teleport yourself to “kenya ,run some errands and be back in a blink”? Or smiled at the thought of getting billions of dollars out of nowhere?

If so, then right there is your answer.

Jesus could move a mountain, but he never did. He could get billions of shekels but only got a “piece of money” for the tax. He could have send fire to punish all those oppressive Romans colonialists [ or oppressors/terrorists/tribalists- add your own bad guy description here], but he did not. He could do a lot of things with His powers, but he did not. At least not “just for the heck of it”, or to avoid hardship.

The power is not to be used “just to see” or to “mersmerize” or to “make them believe” or to “punish the enemies” or  to get yourself some glory and TV face time and celeb status. No.

But once one  is not bothered with such motives,  then one is ready to wield the power and exercise the authority that they have been given, for the kingdom and for God’s glory.

So, if you ever asked, “why am i not able to do this?”, the answer is “you are not yet responsible enough”.

This is what the Lord told me when i thought on these matters.

Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Here is one way of being as your heavenly Father is.

The Lord God wanted some things to be. But the things were not. So what did the Lord God do? He called them into being. He said, “Let there be”. And it was.

³ And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

⁹ And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so.

¹¹ Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so

(Genesis 1, NIV)

Are there things that ought to be that are not? Are there things you desire to be? Speak them into being.

But this great power has  its limits, unfortunately.

You are not the Lord God. You  do not have limitless power and infinite knowledge as He does. So,

• You must have a friendship relationship going with Him for Him to let you tap into His power. That is, you must be born again.
• You must have within you the wonder working power. That is you must be Spirit filled.
• Your ability to call things into being must be within His will. That is, you must be on speaking terms with Him.

Else nothing significant you call into being will be.

What is it that you would to be?

Ask Him what His will on it is, and then speak it to be.