I prefer to stay at the entrance of the gate instead of the wanting..................wanting to enter entirely into the Christian life!
Why am I finding it the hard to move......move on through the gate into the newest..........................the new life.........................that God has placed within me?
Maybe it's me...............with my me-ism the dead-woman walking?
The ignorance of it all............not giving God the creation credit.
It so easy to place the blame...................the blame on the someone else.........like it is the me with the no free will!
I am asleep......in my own me-ism world.............missing it.
Jesus is the gate but the cross is the doorway....why can't I walk on through?
The dying of thy self..................is only for a time...............then the resurrection comes.
Out of the darkness comes the death.................but out of the death comes the new life.
We Christians are the fully dead walking around only the ALIVE in "Christ."
We are born into this world as flesh first.
Sin is not what you do but who you are!
Then the second Adam came into us with "LIFE."
It was Grace..................abundance of Grace...................it was the free................the free gift!
The last Adam is who resurrects us! Raises us from the dead.
Why is it the so hard for me to see?
This beating of my old heart is pumping the memories up all the over again to be the breathed in kind..............the memories shimmer their shine back into visions of thy old self.
Vision of the darkness lingers.....................after all we all have our own dragons to slay.
Years of conflict within my very own soul has taught me this:
You can't forget where you come from.............from where God bought you with a price and brought you home.
And His nail scarred hands.................placing us in the cliff of the rock...............the rock of our salvation.
Covering our sins..........................not always changing our circumstances........................but changing us down deep.................down to the core of who we are..................placing in us a different spirit.
The second Adam...............the last Adam............This is the Adam who brought us out of the what we were born into......and caused a Resurrection........................a Re-birthing..............of a new us!
1 Corinthians 15:45-47:
45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”[f]; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. 46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. 48
Grace leads...............always more fresh grace..........God himself is willing.............willing to start the new......with us...........letting the old die..............and the new will resurrect...
The goodness of God...........God is love.................let us not forget for the power of the cross is at stake!
all of grace,
Robbie
