The love of the law

I had the privilege while I was at home last night, to have a coming of age ceremony for my friend Steve. This was confirmed this morning with the scripture Hebrews 11:24-26

"By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward."

After he left I was talking with God about what had happened. You see, you could have mistook this for a time when I spoke alot and even that I have gained alot from last night (even though it was for Steve) It made me realize "I had been thinking of Steve the whole time"
There in is something that I want to expand upon. It says that "greater love has no man than this than that He has laid down his life for His friend" it also says in another place "if you love your brother, you fulfill all the law, because he who loves His brother will not harm him"
That means, when I am loving another brother, I am doing the greatest thing for Him.

There are somethings I had not connected together, but this is the best, keep your eye on the prize. The law of the LORD is my highest attainment, and gives me the highest JOY. It is in fulfilling the law that I am not only rooted, but also released into full revelation of God's purposes for me. For anyone who speaks like this, it has found it's connection in the heart, and it is in the heart that the LORD is looking at.

And if you are thinking "spiritual riches and the things of the heart are seperate" read what I'm saying, they are inseperable, he looks in my heart, that's exactly what I'm saying! my greatest JOY is Him! my bridegroom!

I have been broken beyond repair, my life has ended in the natural. This happened on the 2nd of June 2012. This is because I am the one that is taking up what he is saying. I am the one that has said "I live not for myself anymore" - I may not fully know, but I am known fully. My friends, give God all your heart! 

I want to finish with this. There was a missionary by the name of Hudson Taylor in which he was speaking to his congregation when away from the mission field. He put this metronome on the stage and set it ticking. At the end of his sermon he recounted the story of one man who had fallen overboard a moving ship. At this Mr. Taylor Shouted to the boat driver "Stop!" but he would not, after a while the boat driver said yes, and went back. By this time the man had drowned. By this time everyone was asking "What is the metronome for?" Then he finished His sermon with this. "Every tick of this metronome another man is drowning in the rivers of China and going to eternal hell!"

A young lady by the name of Amy Carmichael was at this meeting - when she heard this, it cut her heart. She went forward and said "I'm going!"

In her diary later she was recorded as saying. “The night I sailed for China, March 3, 1893, my life, on the human side, was broken, and it never was mended again. But He has been enough.”

If we will go, regardless of the things that would crop up in our minds, then we would be part of the greatest missionary movement in History.  (by the way, I am totally free to be who I am because I've given my heart to Him. What freedom!)

Abraham's Perfect Faith: Why He was Credited with Righteousness

This comes from the scripture in James 2:18-26 (Taken from the RSV)

But some one will say, "You have faith and I have works." Show me your faith apart from your works, and I by my works will show you my faith. You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe--and shudder. Do you want to be shown, you shallow man, that faith apart from works is barren? Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by works,
and the scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness"; and he was called the friend of God. You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone. And in the same way was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead.

In it I noticed a similarity between the Faith of Abraham and the work of Christ on the Cross. The similarity is this: Abraham did give up his only Son, he saw something that was worth more than his own flesh and blood were worth – like it says in Romans 4 “I did not waver in unbelief”

And we say that he was credited with righteousness. Christ gave us the righteousness of faith. This righteousness is God righteousness. He made me his own, his own love. Tell me: is there not a more worthwhile one to give everything to? And is it not a small thing in God’s sight to redeem all his tribes for the faith exhibited in raising one from the dead? Are you telling me God is bankrupt? Does he need me to do anything for Him?

This is the source of steadfastness, looking to the prize – the goal of Christ heavenward. Which is better by far. There is nothing lost in giving up everything, because righteousness is Godly. (we see this promise kept in the Prophets: Isaiah 49:6) the infinite riches of Christ who reconciled us to God by the statement “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?” So when it says we do everything for righteousness (becoming slaves to righteousness in Romans, and being clothed with the righteous acts of the Saints in Revelation 19) Does it not mean something deeper than just going to Church on Sunday?

This means, simply, do not just say that Christ is everything to You, live like Christ is everything to you. Otherwise you will be robbed of glory and riches. They lied to you who said that God doesn't love your deepest perfection and excellence they do not run contrary to each other. They also lied to you who said "you should live a comfortable life" And they pre-eminently lied to you who said God was not the most glorious and valuable one in the universe. Don't just life comfortably anymore, you are indeed priceless in your choosing of God.