Forever Jesus

"There will forever be Jesus."

THIS THING irritates me, so I turn it over to Jesus. Lay it down at His feet. Mentally, it’s still there, physically I can feel it, but two things keep me level. One, I know God is faithful, and I trust Him. His timing is perfect and His care for me continual. Two, He helps me to endure. He is WHY I endure. My enduring it and being free of it is His desire. I have doubted Him. I have asked the questions. I don’t anymore. I have chosen to put Him first and trust His Word. My mind lies to me, my senses lie to me, He does not.

My greatest revelation is He will never leave me or forsake me (Hebrews 13:5). Never, for all eternity. No matter what I do, what I’ve done, what’s ahead of me, He’s here always. To talk to. To laugh with. To sing to. He shares every minute of every day with me. And the more I seek Him, the more I listen, the more He speaks amazing things. The more I know Truth without having to ask. Abba talks to me, Papa (the Spirit) talks to me, Jesus talks to me. But it’s in that I can be me, react like me, even deliberately, to give myself peace of mind, do things, and He won’t love me less. In this, I find freedom.

My perspective has changed. I don’t read the Word the same. Whenever I come up against certain images of Him, things we have taught blindly in the church, where I used to see God as wrong, I now see my image of Him as wrong. I know I’m the one who needs to change perspective. Clearly, I don’t have the revelation of that verse that I need because to say God is angry, harsh, revengeful, anything but love and mercy, is wrong. To say Jesus would condemn His family, the Jews, is wrong. He loves them and gave His life to fulfill His covenant with them. To say He will return for some people and leave others behind to a cruel end, is to not know Him at all. God has opened the mystery of salvation to us (Ephesians 1:9). We’ve misinterpreted it, for the most part. Making the narrow way, so thin no one can get through it but the Christian elite.

Is it that God SO LOVED the world in order to save the world (John 3:16)? Is salvation a plan God set in motion before the foundation of the earth (Revelation 13:8)? Is He big enough to handle us? Does His ending, His Word, come to pass (Isaiah 55:11)? We write the end as a fiery tribulation when He wrote of it for our edification, exhortation, and comfort (1 Corinthians 14:3). The apostle John had the vision of Revelation so we would know there will be no more death, neither sorrow or mourning (Revelation 21:4). There will forever be Jesus.

In Him, I find comfort for the things out of my control, knowing every vision, supernatural or mental, is known by Him and in His hand. In Him, I have stability, no worries about tomorrow (Matthew 6:34), the future, or anything I might come up against. He is safety, protection. In Him, I have peace, goodness, and mercy.

These are my point-of-view now. Anything outside of them is subject to change, and that’s a good thing. We teach to hold fast and to stand firm, and in what He’s promised, this shows our trust in Him. We should hold fast and stand firm. But of our opinions and wrong thinking, we must live forever humble and willing to let go of “me” to become like “him”.  

“The old me who lived for self—who sought to get instead of give, the me who lived on the survival-of-the-fittest principle—died when I recognized the true significance of all that Christ has done. That old me no longer lives, but Christ—with his character of self-sacrificing love—now lives in me. The life I now live in this body I live by trust in the Son of God, who loved me and freely gave himself to win me back to trust and to purge humanity from selfishness and death.” (Galatians 2:20, Remedy)

“I will say even more: The fanciest delicacies, the richest treasures, the highest honors this world has to offer—they are all nothing but garbage compared to the greatest gift of all that comes from knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. I give up everything this world has to offer so that I might be with Christ and be recreated in Christlike character—not from my own efforts or attempts to cure myself, not by observing some code, but by true re-creation of mind, heart and character that God accomplishes when we trust him. And this trust is established by the evidence of God’s supreme trustworthiness provided by Christ.” (Philippians 3:8-9, Remedy)


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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