“Everyone who hears my teaching and applies it to his life can be compared to a wise man who built his house on an unshakable foundation.”
The sense to be found firmly in Christ is stronger than ever today.
To get our feet firmly planted in Jesus’ that they might be a firm strong foundation to walk in and build.
Not to build upon shifting sand based on our own or the world’s values but on His which are kingdom values. Not the temporal, fleeting of the moment but on the eternal, everlasting of the spiritual.
To learn that all that we gain in and of the world we will lose and can count but loss. Our homes, our status, our career, our wealth, our aspired for beauty or gains in the world’s eyes. We do not take them or our physical flesh with us to another realm.
Whereas to know Christ and have Him within our spirit as one in our spiritual being we do take on with us into eternity.
“Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—”
The we that we were purposed to be from before time is the we that God identifies us as in our core and that Christ adores as perfect. We are God’s precious sons and daughters.
The measure that we yield to Him is the measure that we become perfected in Christ.
We loose the imperfections and cracks made and exposed in the world and are again centred and perfect as Christ.
It is the measure by which we learn to love one another as ourselves because of the divine dance of the Holy Spirit that flows through and from the GodHead and each one of us.
It is how we know that as one weeps we taste the salt of their tears. As another knows joy or peace we too embrace that. We are all joined by the Holy Spirit.
We feel it in unity as Christ did with His Father we do in Christ.
“The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.”
We become the fruit on the vine and the ultimate harvest that the world will recognise. It is simple not complex Christ is the central piece that we abide in and which all else is built around.
The simplicity of the gospel takes over. The walls and the boundaries melt away. There are no divisions. Sinking sands will collapse.
All must be found firmly planted in Christ and from there we will flourish now and eternally.
The illustration shows us with our tan coloured feet planted firmly within Jesus’, purple spiritual feet, as a firm foundation in the crumbling sand. Light emanating to push back the darkness.
Three Scriptures that come to mind:
“Everyone who hears my teaching and applies it to his life can be compared to a wise man who built his house on an unshakable foundation.”Matthew 7:24 TPT
“The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.”John 17:22-23 ESV
“Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—”Philippians 3:8-9 ESV
The song You Are My Life. Tauren Wells
https://youtu.be/bSLbhb-zpJo
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