WHO AM I?
Hopefully, you have read the two
previous blogs concerning "Who is the Holy Spirit?"
Now let's consider this question
"Who Am I"? And why is it so crucial to ask such
questions concerning each of us?
Tragically, so many members of the
human race generally think that when we leave this earth, we will automatically go
to heaven! Therein lies a serious problem. What is this "problem" you
might ask?
Praise God, many, many people have indeed, thankfully,
gone to heaven and are with our Triune God, but tragically, so many people
could care less, including many "church-goers" and they do not go to
heaven! Thus, where are you in this?
Consider beginning with the critical
question: "Am I truly in love with the Triune God – Father,
Son and Holy Spirit? And how can I continually prove this in my loving
walk with the Triune God? Just “declaring such” will
not “prove it!”
I have been asked about the special
function of each member of the Trinity...the executive is
the Father (God), the architect is the Son (Jesus), and the contractor is
the Holy Spirit.
It has been said that "When one
is truly in love, it is not an exaggeration to just talk/act
in such a way! Also, it has been said that we need a "lightness from
darkness in our lives and just where does one get such a light?" From our
precious God - and do you have such a Light? (Rabbi Kirt A. Schneider
"Discovering the Jewish Jesus-- Host of TV/radio broadcast)
And where do we get darkness?
"...darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was
hovering over the face of the waters and then God said, let there be light; and
there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good; and
God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the
darkness He called Night. So, the evening and morning were the first
day..." (Genesis 1:3-5)
Let's consider what Paul declared in the book of Matthew 20
"The mainspring of Paul's service is not the love for men, but the love of
Jesus Christ." And just how is that concerning us?
As is written in Oswald Chambers in the book "My Utmost for His Highest (1935)” -
"If we are devoted to the cause of humanity,
we shall soon be crushed and broken-hearted,
for we shall often meet more ingratitude from
from men than we would from a dog; but if
our motive is to love God,
no ingratitude can
hinder us from serving our fellow men. When
we realize that Jesus Christ has served to
the
end of our meanness, our
selfishness, and sin,
nothing that we meet with from others can
exhaust our determination to serve men for
His sake."
- To what do I sense
owing indebtedness (owing gratitude) to my Lord Jesus
- Being aware I can only do as
the Lord Jesus works in me in my indebtedness
- Am I a bondslave of
the Lord Jesus realizing I am not my own?
- Am I free to be an
absolute slave of the Holy Spirit?
- And what is my
"foundation" made of ...? Slippery sand or solid rock of the Lord
Jesus?
- How do I start my day?
Worrying
about what is ahead of me or going to the Lord in prayer trusting Him to guide
me in peace and praising Him and empowering (to be talked
about later) me to accomplish?
- How do I end my
day?
My
wife and I holding hands greeting the Lord God, and Jesus with the Holy
Spirit literally providing us immediately with real peace in
our very beings - we are truly blessed with such peace and then we
consider repentance and forgiveness of our sins (privately), then we begin
our prayer followed by our night's sleep!
- Please remember a Christian must have been
"baptized and empowered with the Holy Spirit"!
To be continued in Blog 4...
