Song of Songs 2:6
His left hand is under my head, and His right
hand embraces me." Our soul embraces God and is in turn embraced
by God. It is His left and right hand for as it is written: "According
as His divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life
and godliness. 2Peter 1:3
God in His great wisdom has prepared us for intimate relationship. We
have been formed in a manner that renders us capable of giving God expression.
All discussion of God's Plan, Purpose, Intent, and Will pertains to relationship.
Our calling, our election, glorification, transformation, and manifestation
as sons are established in relationship. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit
is a relationship. The Church, His body,"the fullness of Him that
fills all in all" is established in relationship. Ultimately I relate
to myself, to God and to the world. Christ within me has prepared me
to do so gloriously.
Psalm 16:11 "You will show me the path of life: in Your presence
is fullness of joy; at Your right hand there are pleasures for evermore."
The right hand also represents the Word; The Lord came from Sinai,
and from His right hand went a law for them." Deuteronomy 33:2
His word embraces us. "I delight to do Your will, O God: yea, Your
law is within my heart. Ps.40:8
We have been joined to Jesus Christ
and we have access to the heart and mind of God as it pertains to His
creation. Through Jesus Christ we have entrance to all that God has brought
forth as recorded in His Word. It is a finished work.
Since we have access to the Will and Purpose of God; the beginning to
the end, the first and the last we never have to be overcome by our old
nature. The entirety of that which God has done, all that has been revealed
in His Word can become for us...present truth. As present truth it operates
within us as faith.
1 John 5:4 "For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world: and
this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith."
The
faith that we manifest is a gift from God by the Spirit. God has dealt
to each of us the measure of faith. It is a faith that increases and it
is a faith that is uncovered progressively. We know in part, and we prophesy
in part but we move towards a day when we shall know as we are intended
to know. We have received promise that we might be partakers of His divine
nature.
"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now
we know in part; but then shall we know even as also we are known."
1Corinthians 13:12
Our Pastor has taught, "you can only know that
which is you." God is granting us a divine ability, an anointing.
If we can say so, God knows Himself in a particular manner. He is the
knower, the knowledge and that which is known. In like manner shall we
know Christ in us," then shall we know even as also we are known."
God has revealed Himself through relationship. You must fully believe
that the kingdom of God is within you. We have the Lord's consent to speak
of His presence as our acquired nature. We have the authority to manifest
His existence as our own; therefore we have permission to be transformed
and to maintain the hope of that transformation. We are permitted to declare
that:
"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I,
but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live
by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me."
Galatians 2:20
What would be the inducement for God to manifest sons? God desires to be
revealed. He appears because it is the nature of the relationship that He
has chosen. He manifests the hidden relationship of the Godhead to us and
within us. We have received the life of Christ so that we can put on Christ.
Paul was able to see his own transformation and to prophesy concerning its
nature. We are called to see the character of our own transformation. We
must continually challenge ourselves. We have got to arrive at the point
when we know that this transformation is really possible that it can be
accomplished. Paul saw it so he was strengthened to work at it. Faith
is the absolute belief that you can do it because God is working with you.
When He dwells in you, Christ in you is the hope of glory. We are changed
into the same image; the same nature and we are able to manifest the reality
of sonship in Christ. ".
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit
of the Lord is, there is liberty. And we all, with open face beholding as
in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory
to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. 2Corinthians 3:17-18
*For more information on this topic simply E-mail Michael Brod at: michaelbrod@hotmail.com
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CALL TO INTIMACY: BY MICHAEL BROD