One thing I have learned in my years of walking with Jesus, is that there is a HUGE difference in knowing and hearing who He says He is and choosing to believe it. I think so often we hear others and even ourselves say who God is but our hearts are so far from it. I was in that place with Jesus for a long time. I said He was faithful, good, merciful, etc. yet I doubted His faithfulness. I didn’t believe that He was good and merciful. I said it, but my heart was far from knowing that, from believing it, and from choosing it. Over a long while, countless prayers to know His heart, a whole heck of a lot of conviction, the Holy Spirit showed me my heart. He showed me that I didn’t believe who God says He is. I may of known it in my head, but I definitely didn’t know it in my heart. I was acting as an orphan. Not at all who He has called me to be. After me and Jesus had a much needed, “Let’s get down to business” chat, my life began to look quite different. I finally began to CHOOSE to believe He is who He says He is.
When we choose to believe He is who He is, He becomes so much more visible and real in every area of our lives.
He is a trustworthy, kind, good, protective, merciful, grace-giving Father. He is so much more than I will ever be able to put into words.
He is a Father who wants His children to trust Him, to rely on Him and walk in sonship with Him.
We are no longer orphans.
How beautiful is that?
To know that Jesus gave His life, so that we could be sons and daughters of the Most High God.
He gave His life so that we could walk in full dependence and trust in who He is and who we are in Him.
Why don’t we live like it?
I think that if more people in the Church, His sons and daughters, actually walked out in faith and believed who He is, we would have a Church that looked a lot different.
When I think about this, I see a picture of a child walking with their eyes closed and a huge smile on their face, in complete trust, listening to their Dad’s voice call them forward into His arms, calling them forward to be embraced, loved, cared for and held in his arms.
Like He wants us to do.
I pray that as His children, we choose to believe Him. We choose to believe Him for who He is for us, and who we are in Him. I pray that we transform our ways of thinking from orphans, to sons and daughters with a Heavenly inheritance. And I pray that we know in every situation and circumstance that we are cared for and provided for. We are fully known and loved without reservations.
So lets let Him love us and care for us.
