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Am I giving my all to Jesus?

by Lorraine Taylor
02/05/20
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God is everlasting life sustained in all time.......

"And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true— in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the TRUE God and eternal life." i John 5:20

God is the source of all life, and he is self-sustaining in perpetually birthing His supernatural life into those who are his. We who are in Christ are thoroughly infused with his divine nature, and in Him, we are righteous Christ-ones in whom He delights.

There is no shadow of darkness in Christ as he is light, truth, and love personified in our human frailty. His greatest desire is that we know we are cherished, accepted, and dearly, deeply, intimately loved.

Each day ---- as we enter into this mysterious union --- abiding in His love -- his eternal self-sustaining life becomes our source ---- regenerating and transforming us in every way.

Learning to live from his supplied, pure, divinely holy life ----- becoming godly image-bearers ----- discovering him as our sufficient source --- is allowing His life to pass through ours in yielded surrender.

We surrender what our flesh is inclined to do. We cease in how we want to react. We give up what we think we know. We stop acting from our own reserved knowledge. We stop resisting. We cease being stubborn. We turn over pride, arrogance, bitterness, and all that holds us bound to His glory. 

We become intentional in choosing His life, His ways and His holy being as our truth, our way and our lifestyle.

We continually choose love as our highest theology above doctrine, above religion, and above dogma.

Absolute surrender requires the cost of becoming an authentic disciple of Christ, choosing Christ’s-life and His love as our lifestyle in each moment, of each hour of each day.

This, friends will cost us what we think we know, what think we believe, and who we think we have become. But in this consecrated and most devoted surrender we will gain everything that brings us Jesus' abundant life in our now.

We will learn what real life is. We will discover all that we have searched for is finally known in Christ and in Him alone. 

We will discover, know and believe our entire authentic and hoped for life is only found in the oneness of union with the very presence of Jesus ---- whose life sustains all life.