Writing our Resume based on the Lord Jesus’ Resume.
Once we
know Jesus as our Lord and Savior, there is no reason to pretend that we do
love; because the Love now lives within us. And when Love lives within us we no
longer love evil; and yes, we learn to hate evil and cling to the good, to do
good to others as Jesus treats everyone with love.
Jesus
teaches us to love cordially with fraternal love and always treat each other
with this honor. It is common to see that caring for others is leisure when we
do not have God in our lives. The Fervor in our spirit is ascended when the
Holy Spirit is our Counselor, Our Guide. Everyone can be happy when there is
hope, but the apostle goes on to teaching that we should be patient in
tribulation. God always comes to us to solve our situation. In Romans 12 the
lesson is that we should bless those who persecute us, bless, and curse not.
Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who are weeping. We must be
unanimous among the brethren not aspire high things, but to accommodate us to
the humble, and not be wise in ourselves. This with certainty is impossible if
we try with our efforts to try to live like this. We need Jesus as our
assistant to live this way. God does not require us to be able to live like
this without him. God teaches his Church through Paul not to render anyone evil
for evil. Our goal should be to seek the honest things towards all men.
God knows
that is not always possible to have peace with all people, and he teaches us: “Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be
careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody. If it is possible, as far
as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not take revenge, my
friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to
avenge; I will repay," says the Lord. On the contrary: "If your enemy
is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing
this, you will heap burning coals on his head." Do not be overcome by
evil, but overcome evil with good.” – Rom. 12:17-21.
You and I
have no conditions and no ability to live this way on our own efforts and we
need God to enable us to do so. And God empowers us, through Jesus Christ we
are more than conquerors.
Perfect Model In Christ.
Paul
teaches about the Perfect Model.
"But as for you, continue in what you
have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you
learned it, and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are
able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All
Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and
training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped
for every good work"- 2 Tim. 3:14-17.
Paul says
be my imitators, as I also am of Christ. It is very important to want to be the
same as Master, and we should all have this desire. But, be the same as the
Master implies also to pay the price he paid. We see that Jesus was rejected in
his life here on earth, he was beaten and publicly attacked, and they whipped
him and attacked him, and they also crucified Him. Jesus was bruised for all of
us Jesus, and He suffered for all of them too. Now Paul addresses the Church
saying: that we should continue in what we have learned and have become convinced
of. He says we know whom we have learned it from; and that from infancy on we
have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make us wise for salvation
through faith in Christ Jesus. There is only one way, and Jesus is the Way, the
Truth and the Life. Paul goes on admonishing them saying: All Scripture is
God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in
righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good
work. There is a very high and profound truth in this teaching; a purpose to be
lived in “God is Love”, in this life that we are learning how to live.
Jesus was
literally pressed in the Garden Gethsemane, as an olive is pressed when the
olive oil is extracted from it. The real and substantial oil, we obtain when
the olives are squeezed out in the press. Many people desire the glory, but
they do not want to pay the price to achieve it. We see that the deeper life
with God is found in the desert and through the Garden of Gethsemane. Do you
know why this happens this way? A human does not need to appeal to the High
Power, when everything is easy at his disposal. In the desert, that is, when
life seems like a desert, and we cannot achieve anything with our own method,
that is when the supernatural power of our God steps in to transform us. The
human being only searches for God when he is abandoned and at the end of his
rope, when all natural resources are gone, then there is still God to call upon
yet fall back on God. The Dictionary
says: If you fall back on something, you do it or use it after other things
have failed. When necessary, instinct is the most reliable resource you can
fall back on.
The Human
beings only seeks God when he is at the end of the rope and on his own; when
natural resources become extinguished, than the best source is God. Observe the
life of Moses between 40 and 80 years of age. How many times did he climb Mount
Horeb to meet God there? My awareness of the fact is that the Bible does not
report that he has sought God on the mountain at this time of his life. He went
there when he was with the people in the desert, for it was impossible to get
the necessary things for his people, as it was in Egypt where they lived
before.
Before he
had access to everything they needed; like food, bath, and a place to live for
family and his sheep and so on. There are no reports that God appears to Moses
at this time of his life as it says afterwards there in the desert. Moses
learned how to seek God in the desert. He had his start up when he saw the fire
in the bush which did not consume. You and I will only have a deeper life, as
life forces us to survive in the wilderness, because than we are kind of
obliged to seek God or die. I believe God wants us all to have the desire to
seek HIM before we get into the desert. The press of the mill, which extracts
the oil from the olives and the desert are two excellent tools that God uses to
transform his people into loving people, just as "God is Love". The
essence of our being is brought forth when we are in the press of life, so that
we can experience the phase of a Perfect Man in Christ; it is necessary to be
broken in the hand of the potter (Jer. 18).
It becomes
necessary that each of us surrender and gives himself to God. The press is
shown in our life when we live in circumstances in which we are obliged to let
go of something; because of our love for God. In the garden when Jesus prayed
he said to his Father in Heaven: "Father, if you are willing, take this
cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done" - Luke. 22:42; it was
this time that the person of Jesus was pressed. It was there that "the Man
Jesus" gave up everything he wanted as a human being and that He was
entitled to, and he chose the will of his Father who is in heaven. The higher
we climb the mountain, the more we will have to sacrifice for the love of God.
Moses was forced to sacrifice a lot for the sake of God and his work. Very few
people who have the mental, physical and spiritual strength and energy to reach
the top of the mountain where Moses climbed up to.
If you
examine the life of Moses, he was already at the age of elder when God called
him to serve, in Acts 7:23,30 it is described. When he visited his brothers he
was 40 years of age and Stephen says that after forty years, when the angel of
the Lord appeared to him in a burning bush in the desert. "When Moses was
forty years old, he decided to visit his fellow Israelites. "After forty
years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in
the desert near Mount Sinai.” - Acts 7.
Moses was
80 years of age when God told him to go and lead His people out of Egypt. Moses
at that point in his life probably thought of having a beautiful retirement,
relax and enjoy the last years of his life. But to be in the will of his God,
it was necessary to sacrifice the peaceful life and its leisure. He did not
climb only physically the mountain, but spiritually as well. The more we become
intimate with our God, the higher we will climb the ladder of relationship with
God. I declare this for the fact that at age 40 while he visiting his brothers;
if he would have had the maturity of the desert, he would have gone up the
mountain to pray instead of killing the Egyptian. We learn from our failures
and mistakes when we are new in faith, yes. Everyone makes mistakes, but God
gives us the grace to learn to seek Him, in order to attain wisdom. But as for
you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, this is
the teaching that Paul gave to Timothy and it is for us as well. Because, he says, you know those from whom
you learned it. Paulo reminds him that since he was small he had known the Holy
Scriptures, which are able to make the person wise for salvation through faith
in Christ Jesus. You and I should receive this advice of Paul for our lives as
well. God also wants us to be perfect and perfectly instructed for every good
work. (2 Tim. 3:14-17.)
It is
necessary to continue in what we have learned and we were acquainted and see
who we learn from to walk in the Word of our God. It was in the hours that
Jesus climbed the mountain to pray that he interceded for you and me. It was on
Calvary He reached Eternal Life for all who believe in him. Jesus taught many
valuable lessons during his life, and all of them are precious and important.
But if Jesus had not gone to Calvary he would have not been able to give the
human being eternal life that he came to prepare for everyone. In practice of
everyday’s life we learn to be a person of integrity, caring for our neighbor
and emptying us from ourselves as Christ did.
Jesus
Christ conquered eternal life for us on the cross when He died for us. Jesus
was the point of giving his life for our life. To have eternal life, he gave
his earthly life as a sacrifice. It was not during the three years of his
ministry that he won eternal life for you and me, but it was on Calvary.
In the Lord's Service
I greet you in His Love
Antonina Penner.
Missionary
Masters inTheology..
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