Galatians 2:20
I am crucified with Christ:
nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth 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
If Gods life
is living in us and we are His how do we still fail?
God’s gifts
are without repentance. He gave Adam choice between life and living as he
determined for himself and that choice is still Adams through us His progeny.
Two trees
for Adam contain His choice. In one the self does not exist but instead a
oneness with God’s shared life. In the other the self determines and makes its
own life but is separated from God. We know which one Adam chose.
The death
that Adam called life affected him to the core even his seed that would become
every soul on the earth. As I write this there are more than seven billion
selves living on this earth.
For these
children of Adam there is still a choice; the self they have inherited from
their father in the earth or a loosing of self and gaining a shared life with
God by faith in the redemption of Jesus.
However what
if we have chosen to give our life to Jesus but still see failure? This is the result of strongholds in our
mind. These strongholds are areas where we are still placing trust in ourselves
and reaping a harvest of sin.
We are
children of adoption. We have been adopted from a horrible darkness. Consider
this as way of illustration.
A child
raised in an abusive home will learn that abuse is normal and adjust their
thinking and actions as best they are able to survive what they consider to be
just life.
If this
child were to be adopted into a kind and loving family they would experience
great joy at the love and kindness. At the same time the ways they have learned
about life would take time and experience to be dispelled.
They may
horde food instead of sharing with their new siblings because of fear their new
father may leave them without. When their new father corrects them they may
fear he will punish them without mercy. They may mistrust instructions from
their new father as being to take from them instead of to give to them. In all
these things they will act in ways that are contrary to the new life their new
father is trying to share with them.
Make no
mistake; if you have desired to be adopted into His family your heavenly Father
will not cast you out. If you act against His ways but desire His ways He says
trust me,
I love you,
I will show
you my ways,
I will make you to become as I am,
you need not fear anything,
I am with
you and nothing can take you from me,
Rest from
your worries and cares because I care for you
All who
trust in me are made as I am; none of them are ashamed of trusting in me
because I do not fail.
I know what
you need; it will make you uncomfortable sometimes but you will see it is for
your perfection.
When you see
your fear dissolve help your adopted brothers to trust me too.
My love cast
out fear and I am with you always even to the ends of the earth.
We fail
because we fear to trust ourselves to Him completely. We fear because we do not
believe He can love us completely without conditions. We set conditions because
we cannot see that He is changing everything in our life.
He provides
for us, He nurtures us, He teaches us, and He chastises us that we may mature.
Not to make us a better child but that we would know we are His child.
