The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe…
"Personal"
It is all personal. That is, everything God the Father purposes, administers, and allows flows with the current of "the eternal purpose which He purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Ephesians 3:11). The Holy Spirit works accordingly as He ever and forever seeks to exalt and reveal the Lord Jesus (John 16:14; 15:26). God also calls born again believers in Christ to join He and the Holy Spirit in devotion to the person of His beloved Son and our beloved Savior: "He is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things He might have the preeminence" (Colossians 1:18).
Why does every atom in the universe exist? The glory and revelation of the Lord Jesus provides the answer. Why did God make the universe, composed of those atoms? The same answer abides. Indeed, the love of the Father for His Son and the Holy Spirit's Christ-centered working in all things serves as the correct response to every inquiry of eternal and temporal consequence we can consider…
Why do human beings exist?
Why were we given freedom to respond to God in either faith and faithfulness, or unbelief and sin?
Why, before we existed, does the Bible refer to the Lord Jesus as "the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world?" (Revelation 13:8).
Why did God form an earthly nation through Abraham?
Why did He birth a spiritual people, the church of the Blood-washed and Spirit-enlivened?
Why does the Old Testament exist? Why the New Testament?
Why is the Lord Jesus the Elect of God?
Why was Christ born of a virgin in humble circumstance?
Why did He live as He lived, die as He died, and rise again from the dead?
Why does the Holy Spirit indwell every believer?
Why do we live by faith?
Why the promises and commands of Scripture?
Why has God worked in your life and mine as He has? Why does He presently work as He does?
Why will the Lord Jesus return for the church one day, and then ultimately reign through Israel for one thousand years, in prelude to His eternal Lordship under the Father's authority forevermore?
The answer to all of these questions, and far more, is personal. Everything God is about concerns His Son from everlasting, to everlasting. His "eternal purpose" centers in the Lord Jesus. The Father's love for His Son, and wonderfully, for all spiritually united to His Son, directs His heart and hand in everything He purposes forevermore. Indeed, the Lord Jesus Christ answers every "Why?" we can address to our Father. Many other subsidiary answers may also apply. However, the primary response to all inquiries past, present, and future directs our attention to the Father's beloved Son, the beloved Subject of Holy Spirit's focus, and our beloved Savior. We live in a Christ-saturated reality of the Heavenly and the earthly, a glory we presently see in the most limited measure. We shall understand it better by and by, as the old hymn exults, and in the moment we see our Lord "face to face," we will see far more clearly: it is all so very personal...
"The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into His hand."
(John 3:35)
"And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing. And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb forever and ever."
(Revelation 5:10-13)
Weekly Memory Verse
In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
(I Thessalonians 5:18).
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