YIEDEDNESS IS A REQUIREMENT OF MOST HIGH GOD FOR WORKING THE LIFE OF A BELIEVER OR CHRISTIAN
There are many MILITANT and STRUGGLING Christians or Believers wondering why LIFE and EXISTENCE is becoming UNBEARABLE, and for others, just MANAGING! After CREATION, FORMATION and RENEWAL of ALL things, God saw everything and said, "IT IS GOOD". The EXPECTATION of some Christians is that the Christian Life must be without SUFFERING! But Christ Jesus never PROMISED us an easy LIFE: "Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his?cross, and?follow?Me." - Matthew 16:24 . The Old Rugged Cross is INDIGNANT and HUMILIATING, yet Christ Jesus bore our SINS on that Cross and declared, "IT IS FINISHED!"
Christ EMERGED, WALKED, SUFFERED, DIED, was BURIED in the GRAVE and RESURRECTED on Earth for HUMANITY to SUCCEED in our sojourn. Almighty God PURPOSED to GLORIFY Himself through CHRIST, so made the FULLNESS of the Godhead dwell in Him. All CREATION, FORMATION and RENEWAL consist in Christ and MADE through Him. He is the only CHANNEL of ACCESS to the Most High God. That is why whoever HATES Christ is ACCURSED! "If anyone does not?love?the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be?accursed. O Lord, come!" - 1 Corinthians 16:22 . Hating the LIFE-GIVER amounts to FUTILITY of EXISTENCE and LIFE! All things are ALIVE through Him.
God indeed CREATED and FORMED us in His IMAGE and LIKENESS but did not grant us the POWER to DIRECT our OWN WAYS! Why? Mortal man is not MADE to be INDEPENDANT of the Godhead. “I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will?direct?all his ways; He shall build My city and let My exiles go free, not for price nor reward,” Says the?Lord?of hosts. - Isaiah 45:13. Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way you should go.” - Isaiah 48:17. “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye. Do not be like the horse or like the mule, which have no understanding, which must be harnessed with bit and bridle, else they will not come near you.” - Psalm 32:8-9. “Trust in the?Lord?with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct?your paths.” - Proverbs 3:5-6. “The steps of a?good?man are ordered by the?Lord, and He delights in his way.” - Psalm 37:23. ?“A man’s heart plans his way, but the?Lord?directs his steps.” - Proverbs 16:9.
We MORTALS are SOJOURNERS on Earth thus NEED DIVINE DIRECTION and GUIDANCE from the Almighty God for a GLORIOUS and SUCCESSFUL stay on Plant Earth. God does not FORCE us against our WILL, so the GREATEST GIFT of man is VOLITION. However, we are on Earth to FULFIL the PLEASURES of Most High God. The whole ESSENCE of LIFE and EXISTENCE is LIVING through Christ and for Him. That is why LIFE without Christ is SHIPWRECK, NAKEDNESS, HOPELESSNESS, HELPLESSNESS, PURPOSELESS, VISIONLESSNESS, CLUELESSNESS, FOOLISHNESS, STUPIDITY and WORTHLESSNESS!!!!!! "For to this end?Christ?died and rose and?lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living." - Romans 14:9 . "Yet for us?there is?one God, the Father, of whom?are?all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus?Christ, through whom?are?all things, and through whom we?live." - 1 Corinthians 8:6 . "I have been crucified with?Christ; it is no longer I who?live, but?Christ?lives in me; and the?life?which I now?live?in the flesh I?live?by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." - Galatians 2:20 . "For to me, to?live?is?Christ, and to die?is?gain." - Philippians 1:21 .
Our SOJOURN on Earth is a WALK with Most High God. The FRAILTY and NOTHINGNESS of man is EXPOSED when SIN separates us from our MAKER! SUCCESS on Earth is LINKED to INSEPARABILITY of Man from God. So when SIN entered the World through the first man, Adam, God had already a REMEDIATION MEASURE! A LAMB was SLAIN in the Heavens before the inception of TIME in ETERNITY, and this lamb was the CHRIST. "And they?overcame?him by the?blood?of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death." - Revelation 12:11 . This is a hidden mystery kept secret for ages, that even the Angels in Heaven could not search out until now.
Humanity is REQUIRED to WALK in YIELDEDNESS for God to WORK in, TRANSPORM and PERFECT us. To YIELD to God is to DIE of ONESELF. Each of us have OWN EXPECTATIONS, OWN DESIRES, OWN WILL, OWN PLANS, OWN PURPOSES, OWN INCLINATIONS etc. Whoever, the REDEEMED of the Lord, have to SURRENDER and SUBMIT to the LORDSHIP of Christ Jesus. Once that is FULFILLED, the Holy Spirit gains HABITATION in us to WORK and TRANSFORM us. Refusal to YIELD will HALT the WORKING and TRANSFORMATION Process. Our constant FELLOWSHIP and COMMUNION with God quickens the TRANSFORMATION process and eventually ALIGNS us to the WILL, PLAN and PURPOSES of God. Why? We are on Earth not to fulfill OWN Will, Plan and Purposes but that of the Most High God. So the "SELF" in us must DIE to give way for us to FULFILL the PLEASURES of God. The DEATH of "SELF" paves way for a BELIEVER to be RULED by his SPIRIT. Since God is SPIRIT, the only way He can COMMUNE of us is through our Human Spirit. The Holy Spirit dwelling in us gives STRENGTH and EMPOWERMENT to our Human Spirit. So constant and continual FELLOWSHIP and COMMUNION with our Maker keeps us in constant VICTORY and TRIUMTH in this Life. Shalom.
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