Know Life – A Devotion

Colossians 3:1-3 (NLT)

Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God’s right hand. Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth. For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God.

 

To know God is to discover real life hidden with Christ. Dying to self is a spiritual death that opens your heart to the reality of Heaven here and now. You do not have to wait to experience the abundance of God’s Glory in your life. It is hidden with Jesus for safe keeping under the watchful eye of God who is waiting to hand it over as you develop the faith to receive it. The life God has for you is so vast in fact that it requires your entire existence to be fully manifested. It cannot be received when there is not a commitment to enter in. You cannot walk through two doors at the same time unless of course they are joined and entering the same destination. To enter your brand new life, a Gift of God through Jesus Christ, one must exit their old existence and fully enter into the new one. It is very simple in concept but very complex in revelation. When life is defined by the time spent on earth and it is marked by a birth and death certificate, then it is not the life God intended for His People. However, this portion of life is minute in comparison to the vast abundance and sheer volume of God’s Thoughts and Plans for His People. They were produced with Eternity in mind and go on forever and ever. The enemy of your soul longs to confine you to the parameters of your natural life and keep hidden the true potential of your existence as defined by God and secured by His Son, Jesus for your benefit. The heavy burdens, heartaches and disappointments of this life have only one point that you will seek the help of your Father to lighten the load, mend the brokenness and find victory. If God can gather you to himself, you will find abundant life but outside of God there is only a grave waiting for His Beloved Children. Why not seek to discover the brand new life kept secretly in the Presence of God and try it on? It fits well as if it were finely tailored just for you because it was created with only you in mind. You will not experience the restrictions of an ill-fitting, tattered life that has been ravaged by sin. But instead God will clothe you in righteousness (Isaiah 61:10) that will allow you to experience a new and expansive life in the freedom of the Kingdom of God as a Child of the King.

John 10:9-10 (NLT)

Yes, I am the gate. Those who come in through me will be saved. They will come and go freely and will find good pastures. The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.

 

Jesus Christ had one purpose. To give you a rich and satisfying life, He is the entrance and starting point to claiming the brand new life promised by God to those who will turn their hearts and minds back from rebellion and sin. Everyone seeks to live a satisfying life. People spend their entire time on earth building tiny kingdoms of houses, cars, nest eggs and comfort zones to call their own. They work and toil for things to produce an artificial abundance in hope of contentment only to want more than they could ever attain. Always reaching and never achieving what they have longed for and perplexed in the effort. Life will never be satisfying outside of Jesus Christ. No matter how much you have, there will never be prosperity of soul without the Lord’s Intervention and Influence on the human life. Sin is a devastating disease that continues to eat away at the soul and spirit never allowing satisfaction or peace. But thanks be to Jesus Christ that He opened the door to God’s Kingdom for all who seek satisfaction, contentment and peace. It is a brand new life. It is vast. It is abundant. It is Eternal and it is yours for the asking. As the door opens are you willing to enter into the Brand New Life of a New Creation that God is providing through Jesus Christ abandoning this life for all God has. You cannot pull elements of your old life into your New Life and fully experience the benefits and abundance of God. Baggage must be left at the door of redemption and repentance to fully claim the Reward of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Are you willing to leave all that you have worked for behind to find the Peace of God?

Romans 1:16-18 (NLT)

For I am not ashamed of this Good News about Christ. It is the power of God at work, saving everyone who believes—the Jew first and also the Gentile. This Good News tells us how God makes us right in his sight. This is accomplished from start to finish by faith. As the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.”

 

Are you ashamed to be a Christian? What kind of question is that you may be wondering? It is an important one for those who seek the abundant life promised by Jesus Christ. Many believe they have entered the door of life (Jesus) but choose to remain in their old life tightly holding the things of this world. A true believer in Jesus Christ is not ashamed of the Lord and walks boldly into the New Life He has given. To be ashamed of the Lord is an unwillingness produced by a lack of confidence that Jesus Christ was able to pay for your sin and God is unable to deliver the new life that He has promised. This idea is most often defined by ignorance of who God is and the Power He possesses. It is established by what we see and hear rather than what we know to be true of God. When planning a family vacation, one certainly takes the time to become acquainted with their destination in order to make the best of the time of rest and recreation. There are benefits of your chosen location which has increased your desire to visit such a place. You are curious of what you will find and if it will fulfill a desire and satisfy one’s curiosity. To create expectation of what is to come also feeds the drive of anticipation. People are clearly dissatisfied with this life. Striving for more than the mundane they span the globe in search of satisfaction and long for contentment. It is all found in Jesus Christ. By opening the door of salvation, a believer gains access to satisfaction and contentment. By faith, righteousness produces life. Righteousness moves you from this life into the Presence of God. Real life. What you are experiencing now is not the life you were created to life that is why you are desperate for more? God will fulfill every desire, need and longing of a heart yielded to Him who has entered the Gate that is Jesus Christ being fully confident in His Power with a willingness to follow the Lord no matter what the cost with a commitment to sacrifice this life to have all that God is holding in His Hand. There is no such thing as a double life. There is only one abundant life. You cannot separate your life into two different parts – one that serves God and the other that serves man. One must be chosen with no separation. Will you choose life or life more abundantly?

2 Corinthians 3:8 (NLT)

Shouldn’t we expect far greater glory under the new way, now that the Holy Spirit is giving life?

What do you expect? Life is built around expectancy. If we expect God to bless our natural life now that is small and limited, how much more should we expect of our new Eternal Life? Eternal life by definition stretches from the beginning of time to the end. If this is true, we are living a part of forever right now. This would make it logical to expect the extravagance of God’s Glory in our life today. However, you cannot define the Glory of God by this small fragment of time from natural birth to natural death. We must set our sights on Eternal Life. It began at the time of creation and spans forever to infinity. Our thoughts must be pressed and refined to expand our thinking from here and now to the beginning and end or the Alpha and Omega. Your life was created to be so much bigger than what you are living right now. Through righteousness, you can experience your potential and purpose right now even locked in the frailty of a human body with man’s weakness. Claim your new life today. It is hidden in the Heart of God protected by the Nail-Scarred Hands of Jesus Christ for your acceptance. That’s all you have to do is take it and live in it. Stand on it. Exercise your faith to stretch farther and farther across this life into Eternity allowing God’s Presence to flood your life with the Light of His Love. You are God’s Child limitless in power and overflowing with potential which is accessible by moving from this life into the one God has provided for His Beloved. You are the Beloved of God in Jesus Christ. His Glory is waiting to permeate the darkness of this life and illuminate His Love in your life by faith. Do you trust God? Do you believe He has the Power to change your life? Do you expect it? Knowing God will expand your expectancy and open your heart and mind to all that God has for you. It is a guarded secret kept for those who seek His Face.

John 14:6-7 (NLT)

Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me. If you had really known me, you would know who my Father is.From now on, you do know him and have seen him!”

Doubt ends with a decision. The disciples had their doubts after the death of Jesus Christ. Nothing was turning out as they had planned or expected but God’s Plan was successful. Will you make the decision to trust the Lord? Will you choose Jesus to be your way, truth and life? No one can know God without entering the New Life provided by Jesus Christ. It is filled with all the purpose and potential that is your inheritance from the Father as a Child of God. It is inaccessible outside of the Blood of Jesus Christ and His Righteousness which once accepted becomes yours. Rightstanding with God produces an understanding that will increase your faith and expectancy available when we trust God with our life leaving this world behind for all that He has created from the Beginning to the End for His People. Do you know the Lord? To know God is to create a life of intentional intimacy with God through the Blood of Jesus Christ with the constant assistance of His Spirit that leads to all Truth and Understanding of God’s Word for your life. Make a choice to leave this life and fully enter the Brand New Life God has given you through Jesus Christ.

Psalm 16:10-11 (NLT)

For you will not leave my soul among the deador allow your holy one to rot in the grave.
You will show me the way of life, granting me the joy of your presence and the pleasures of living with you forever.

 

God desires to give you a New Life. He has been holding it all this time in safe keeping for your acceptance. Will you let go of your old life full of hurt, brokenness and disappointment to take hold of this life God is saving just for you? Jesus is the Only Way. You must walk in it to experience it. Knowledge of God will create expectancy that God will meet and exceed each and every time. Make the decision to have faith in God. Fortify it with the Knowledge of God found in His Word and His Way. Now you will know the meaning of life. You will be satisfied! Welcome to your Brand New Life!