Better People

"and the Life in the Seed changes us into BETTER PEOPLE."

When we KNOW HIM, we have peace. (2 Peter 1:2)
When we KNOW HIM, we are filled with love. (Ephesians 3:19)
When we KNOW HIM, we have no fear. (1 John 4:18)
When we KNOW HIM, we look like Him – His virtue, His honor and integrity. (2 Peter 1:3)
When we KNOW HIM, we have hope. (Ephesians 1:18)

But we can only know Him by spending time with Him. 1 John 2 in the Wuest translation says the Father should be our source. His truth should be our source. We’re too distracted. Being SPIRIT-LED means the Spirit’s direction is first. Minister Jesse Duplantis says that is the DIVINE ORDER. Or how things are done.

“Gaze upon him, join your life with his, and joy will come.” (Psalm 34:5 TPT)

We have to stop making assumptions, designing His Word to fit our mindset. I overheard a group argue against God’s love for people. Oh, they didn’t say it out front like that but made excuses for who we love and who we don’t. They missed the point. I’ve wept with Him over people’s life stories. A four-year-old girl rang the hospital bell. She is free of cancer. A Jewish forensic scientist accepted His salvation, unable to turn away because it followed what he’s learned about people. A couple’s baby came back to life in the womb. A faithful Christian Catholic believer declared the Beatitudes beautifully. Jesus isn’t blind to what we’re doing on earth, nor deaf, nor impatient. Impatience displays itself in frustration, but also in lack of interest. He’s interested in me, in you, in that singer who is where he is publicly because he is faithful to Him and carries himself well, in a comedian who tells, bar none, the funniest joke about Jesus’ brother, James.

The Spirit is not with us just to report in to the Father. He’s our Friend. Jesus is our Beloved. Abba is the gentlest of all. Who we desire, we seek. Who we seek, we find. Mix in that He loved us first, and it’s a done deal. But we have to be willing to KNOW THEM and allow what we LEARN to CHANGE US. That is the meaning of the word “repent.” We apply it solely to sin, and that is important. 1 John says those that love God, that have HIS SEED in them, do not sin. Instead, they grow Spirit-fruit (Galatians 5:22-23). As a reaction to being near Him, but as a result of eating of Him. He is the Bread of Life. We eat of Him to remember His work but also to allow His work to become one with us, and the Life in the Seed changes us into BETTER PEOPLE.

We dine to taste, to experience. We linger because our hunger keeps us there. We grow because He feeds us. Like that mustard seed which though tiny produces a tree, big enough to hold birds in its branches. We are not with Him out of duty. We do not give up things strictly in obedience. He doesn’t want blindness. He wants our hand and the look in our eyes and the lilt in our voice.

A singer pens a tune taken from Psalm 127, which becomes lyrics of house and home and adoration. Another describes a garden, as ivy growing up a wall, and how her place there is for Him and in Him. Yet another calls Him Daddy, His heart filling His voice. Boldness spins from the lyrics of love, and we’re meant to desire that. To hear them, and say, That is me, and turn our faces upward, not to a desert sky and a blazing sun, but to the power that created the cosmos, which walked as a man, talked as a man, died as a man. But rose as God. Our God, whose voice we hear in the quiet or in the noise because to Him is all our adoration.

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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