faith working through love does not work for a person who has not put
all his eggs in one basket(R t Kendall)[1]
Kendall
my recent favorite writers who wrote in the 80s says that faith working through
love is not possible for one who has not put his eggs in one basket –Jesus Christ.
If we have not believed that we have peace with God
through the justification that comes with Christ (rom 5:1) then we will be
toast like the waves of the sea. Many believers live in the fear that they will
somehow be eternally lost if they don’t carry
out their part of being faithful in obeying God effectively.
Kendall says that if it hits you
that you are justified and made at peace with God in Christ Jesus forever you
will regret that you ever doubted in your heart of your eternal salvation. Yet isn’t it what we see in the church,
believers are not sure if they are even going to heaven.
It
becomes utterly frustrating that believers are the most active spiritual beings
and yet are the ones who are doubting
the God they worship. If we have not put our eggs in one basket by being
convinced of our eternal dwelling in Christ, then no matter how perfect we are
religiously, we have missed on Christ and his love for us in availing God’s
fullness to us.
If
God did not withdraw his son from us but freely gave him for us, how much more
with him will he grant us all these things we need for life? If God does indeed
withhold something from his people until they show some loyalty , then I think God
is fair enough to let us know that. If our conscientious religion catapults the
heavens to move or if the prayers of the righteous manage to arm twist the arm
of the Lord to move for his people, then what is free has been undermined by
the performance of man.i am not against prayer, but prayer is prayer in the right context, its communing with God-agreeing with God concerning Christ and what he has accomplished for us aas we see them manifest. No wonder then Christianity has become a frustrating
venture of making God move while believing in his son at the same time.We are soon caught up in the man towards God movement- not unless we do something God won't move.
If
God has withheld something from us until our performance ratifies his blessings
then I bet even that we are wnot worshiping him from the depths of our hearts.
We may say awesome things about God but on the
other hand shoot up our defensive darts because we are somehow convinced that
God is a short changer who is after our loyalty and obedience. When we see
something awesome with our God we may quickly be reminded to cork our religious
guns and get back to war and the summary becomes, its all about us.
With
our lips we may sing great is thy faithfulness but with our hearts we are
singing great is my faithfulness. It’s a schizophrenic spirituality that gives
birth to slaves, to zombies.
Would
we think that if God requires more works from us to ratify what he has already
done, that we would love him more? Is God suffering from personality issues. Is
God Emmanuel and on the other side he is about to hide his face from us? Do we
honestly want to think that God is withholding anything from us? Anything whatsoever?
What if God wants us to know that Christ is our
life now and as effortlessly as breathing the air bet our lives in Him. What if
that which we think God will bless us with later he has blessed us now already?
Would he love us to know and experience the blessings ; indeed we have been
blessed with all the spiritual blessings in the heavenly realms in Christ.(eph
1:3) What if God wants to us to know as David forsaw that blessed is the man to
whom God does not see iniquity?(psalm 32:1-3) what if we are that generation? Wouldn’t
God be glorified in seeing his sons captivated by such realities?
Friends what
if all these are real stuff that God wants us to know? We are in him, all our
eggs in one basket. The singer sang and said how great is our God. He is great
and the things he has done in us are great. They can only be measured in the
weight of Christ, stay blessed.
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