Daily Bread - FEB/24/07
Acts 3:19 - "And to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God."
The very idea of the possibility of being filled with God's fullness is unimaginable. However, when we consider that we have been filled with the Holy Spirit and that Jesus and the Father have come to dwell in us we recognize that this is indeed the will of God for our lives (John 14:17, 23; Colossians 1:27; Ephesians 3:9; Luke 3:16).
The indwelling fullness of God is viewed in chapter 4 as "the measure of the maturity of the fullness of Christ" (Ephesians 4:13). The growth and maturity that we are called to in God is directly related to knowing His love. John said that if we dwell in love then we dwell in God (1 John 4:16). If there is any principle and reality in God that we must grasp it is this: we must walk in love (Ephesians 5:2; John 13:34; Ephesians 4:15).
The way of love must decide all of our responses and direct all of our decisions. The child of God must be willing to actively participate with the working of the Holy Spirit whose desire is to reveal Jesus and express the love of God through our lives (Galatians 5:22; John 16:14; Acts 1:8; Galatians 1:16; 2:20; Philippians 1:2; Romans 5:5).
Blessings,
Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
abidingplace.org
About Me
- Carol L
- San Diego area, California, United States
- I started this blog back in 2005, but in 2006 began dedicating it solely for the purpose of posting email messages called, Daily Bread, sent out Monday through Saturday by my pastor, Mark Spitsbergen. These daily emails contain fresh revelation that Mark gets from the Word of God by the Holy Spirit for that day for the church that God has called him to pastor, Abiding Place. 1 Peter 4:11 says, "If any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister let him do it as of the ability which God gives that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen." Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, (John 14:6), and He says, "The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are Life." (John 6:63). For the Word of God is quick (alive), and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12).
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