All We Are

"There is a reason we will all stand in the throne room and see His glory."

WATCHING THE SERIES, The Chosen, of the life of Jesus Christ has altered my thinking in several ways, making seasons of His life more real to me than they were on the page. Seeing events depicted one atop the other was difficult, emotional. In the gospels, they are read separate from each other and are not seen in the way they happened. There are also those things acted which are not accurate to the gospel. On the one hand, I understand why they chose to do so, on the other, you cannot speak against the fullness of the gospel.

I dislike churchisms. I have said this. “The fullness of the gospel” is one, along with “walk by faith” and “speak the Word.” Yet, there are times when they are needed because they express the truth in the best way. I dislike things being identified and defined so that they lose their meaning. Taking the gifts of the Spirit and pulling them apart into the phrases Paul gave them to identify them makes them not the unity of the church they are meant to be. This is one example. One person says, I give prophecy, and another, I have words of wisdom or words of knowledge. Instead, it should be that all are able to use any of the gifts AS THE SPIRIT WILLS. This was Paul’s meaning. My point is his point. Men should look at us and see Jesus and not our self-will and definitely not the devil.

We must know the devil and define the devil in order to recognize him, then put him back where he belongs, under our feet, a churchism. But many in the body of Christ either don’t know him enough to reject him or appear to know him and can quote the churchisms about him without any clue how he actually is. God forgives us our ignorance and asks us to COME UP HIGHER, to know and perceive and discern truth from error, right from wrong, good from evil. We must know that Jesus saves us from the result of sin. We don’t have to go to hell when we die. We must know His salvation gives us eternal life and abundant life now, on this earth. We must know that abundance includes every part of our life – our finances, the success of our children and grandchildren, our complete health of body and mind. The story of Jesus’ life in the gospels shows us all these things and also His meekness of spirit and strength of faith. He presented the Father to us perfectly, if we would see it.

God makes no defense of Himself. He has said what must be said and has made the channel of communication from us to Him open and readily available. But we must choose it and inquire of Him in sincereness of heart, however that presents itself, then spend time listening to what He replies. We must fine-tune our hearing and know His manner of speech and His good nature in order to avoid the deception of the enemy. The devil would speak every other word in order to confuse our thinking. Jesus says, “I will do it.” The devil inserts “if.” We must reject fear of error and arrogance in our own defense when we get it wrong. We must understand God’s silence for what it is and not make our own mental assumptions. Too much in the church teaching comes from what man has decided things mean. This goes to those things in the Chosen which are not correct. Jesus adores this production. So many have come to find Him through it, and that is His heart. He longs for men to be saved. But He winces at mistruth.

This isn’t about the Chosen but about the King who died for us and the Father who sent Him and the Spirit who Resurrected Him. How blessed we are that they love us to such a great extent. How blessed am I who was resurrected again from what the devil would have done to me. There is nothing I will not do now to show them to you for the merciful kindness they are. And all the time, every day, without ever being anything else. Judgment such as man has focused on does not change who they are. In order for God to finally end all things and cleanse this planet and make it new, there will need to be judgment. For if you reject mercy, that is your only other option. Humbleness is required of men in order to be saved, and humility asked of us to walk after His ways and to look like and be as powerful as Him. For all we are, all He would make of us, is in His hand entirely. Without Him, we would all be dead. That we are not, that He gives Himself to us to walk safely amidst a damaged planet is the most amazing thing ever. That there are devils, but we need not fear them, and even greater, can rebuke them in His authority, is a true picture of who He is, in Himself but also in us.

For there is not any partial filling of the spirit of man. Why then do we take up a partial gospel? If our heart must all be His, so then also must all of our thinking, all of our physical body. All of our choices. We are the chosen. He chose us to know Him, to be strong like Him and wise like Him and loving like Him and powerful like Him. There is a reason we will all stand in the throne room and see His glory. It is because of His work in us here on this earth that we are made worthy of such a wonderful forever. On earth, on the mountain, if you touched the mountain you would die. In heaven, with the Father there before us we will live in peace and joy. The reason is the Savior who gave His life for our eternity. Not just in the future, but in today, in this hour, where it seems like, to our human minds, all of hell has taken over. If that were so, however, none would be living and instead every man consumed one of another. No, the greatness of Him is that we are not and instead we live among what should destroy us with courage, with boldness, with life.

“But he appeared at the proper time, and only needed to sacrifice himself once: to reveal the truth about God, expose the lies of Satan, develop the Remedy, and bring all things into unity with God.” (Hebrews 9:26, Remedy)

“This is what you were called to do: reveal God’s character in your life, because Christ suffered for your healing and restoration—giving a perfect revelation of God—and you should model your life after his.” (1 Peter 2:21)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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