Thursday, August 29, 2013

We Have Access to the King at All Times

In order to stay in power, King Louis XIV created a grand scheme which would empower his friends while impoverishing his enemies. He distracted the nobles with busy tasks and steps in order to get his favors. Many denominations give the impression that we must do, say, think, or have certain things in order to access God. No falsehood could be more pernicious:

"Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." (Hebrews 4: 16)

If we are saved by grace (Ephesians 3\2:4, 8), then anything that we need we also receive by grace. Our "job" is to rest in the Finished Work of Jesus Christ (Hebrews 4: 11), that through Him all our sins have been forgiven (Colossians 2: 13), and that through Him we have been blessed with all spiritual blessings (Ephesians 1: 3)

The real issue for us, and the source of distraction for Satan, is that he wants us to look at ourselves, convince us that we have to do things, find things, or spend ourselves, much like the nobles of King Louis' day, in order to get what we need.

Yet we have not so received Christ:

"For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." (Romans 8: 15)

God is not some distant monarch whom we have to bribe in order to receive form him. Because Jesus Christ died on the Cross for us, becoming sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him (2 Corinthians 5: 21), we can now call him: "Daddy!" Even evil parents responds to the needs of their children. God gave His own Son for us, so we can know and believe in His Love (1 John 4: 16), that He will freely give us all things with Him (Romans 8: 31-32)

Do not try to think, feel, say, or do anything in order to come before God. Rest in the eternal truth of His love, that all your sins are forever forgiven (1 John 4: 10), that before Him God does not see you in your mortal body, but alive in Christ (1 John 4: 17)

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