Could you imagine being poor on the street’s ? You are left to fend for yourself, eating food that others have discarded, clothes that have been thrown away and sleeping any place you can find?
Now imagine how insane it would be if such a person were adopted and taking into a beautiful home by a loving couple and told that every in the house belonged to them as well.
Yet year after year this child does not get the reality of the blessing they have received. They continue to look through the garbage for food even though there is meal after meal prepared for them and set on the table. They continue to wear ragged old clothes, though the closet in the room this loving couple has provided for them is filled with new clothes. In fact night after night, this couple has to go out and search around the outside of the house to find this person because they continue to seek shelter even though they have a room of their own.
Now to most this would sound silly, because you know that if you were left to living on the street and someone took you into their home and said to you that all that is theirs belongs to you as well you would enjoy it and hopefully be grateful.
Yet many Christians today are no different than this person, because they have inherited a Kingdom yet they continue in the mindset that they must earn the rights of the world.
I wonder how many Christians are going to walk into eternity, never knowing the awesome blessings the Father has bestowed on them. Salvation is indeed free and all the blessings of God come from His mercy – yet like a Car, unless you put the key in the ignition and start it up, you will never enjoy the beautiful ride the car can give you.
In the same manner so many are falsely taught about “works” that they remove themselves from the works and fruits of the Kingdom. Shall works get me into heaven? By now means for the Word is clear that we are saved through Faith in Christ Jesus, and that Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven. Yet if we simply lie back and continue to live the life we lived before we accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior and never take part in walking in obedience to His authority, His Word and His dominion we shall never experience the benefits of all that we have inherited as children of the Lord God.
It is work to study His word, it is work to help another, it is work to conform to His Word and Kingdom rule. It is work to stay at the cross, allowing its bondage smashing power to flow through our lives. It is indeed hard labor at times to love people who do not want to be loved. It is hard work to dismiss the insults, emotional wounding s and possible physical pain by others simply because one is a Christian (For those of us in the western world who have not experienced this – it wont be long before such persecution come to this land) . One must admit it is a conscious struggle (work) to walk in the overcoming power of His holiness to see that sin no longer controls us. I have yet to meet anyone that God has magic waned and they no longer are at war against the flesh.
Yes we are indeed saved by His gracious mercy – and if we will bow low to Him, His Grace shall empower of us to live as true adopted Children, walking in the abundance of His Kingdom.
For we indeed serve and awesome God – Now let us live the life of adoption rather than outcast living outside the Kingdom!!!
Radical Disciples - A Remnant Revolution 