The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe…
"The Beautiful Cycle"
"In order to have genuine fellowship with God, we must know Him in both personal and principled terms. He made us accordingly, our inward being being composed of both heart and mind."
"Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth forever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away, but the Word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the Word which by the Gospel is preached unto you" (I Peter 1:23-25).
"The Word of God" must be known and embraced in both living and written reality. As the Apostle Peter declares, the new birth involves both aspects of God's redemption and our relationship to Him through the Lord Jesus Christ.
Our Savior is the living Word. "The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us" (John 1:14). The Bible is God's written Word. "They received the Word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so" (Acts 17:11). In order to have genuine fellowship with God, we must know Him in both personal and principled terms. He made us accordingly, our inward being being composed of both heart and mind. Through the Lord Jesus, personal knowledge and principled understanding journey on twin rails within our inner being.
"The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge" (Proverbs 15:14).
When born again through faith in the Lord Jesus, as revealed in the Bible, the Holy Spirit enters our hearts and imparts the realization that we know the One for whom we were created. "The Spirit Himself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God" (Romans 8:16). He also works in us to bear witness to the words of Scripture that confirm our knowledge of God through Christ, and that call us to "grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" (II Peter 3:18). In terms of Solomon's counsel mentioned above, if we have understanding, we will seek to better know our Lord. Moreover, the better we know Him, the more we will seek to understand His truth. A beautiful cycle of the personal and the principle moves within us, resulting in the worship of God "in spirit and in truth" to which the Lord Jesus calls us (John 4:24).
Let us pray for one another that we will better know and understand our Lord and His truth. He made us for living, personal fellowship with Him in the heart, and for comprehension of His truth in the mind. Christ, the living Word, and the Bible, the written Word, supply the necessary components of reality whereby the beautiful cycle of life and truth fills and fulfills our inward being forevermore.
"Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened."
(Ephesians 1:15-18)
Weekly Memory Verse
As for me, I will behold Thy face in righteousness.
(Psalm 17:15)
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