BELIEVE AND TURN

By Rick Mathes

Acts 11:21 (NASB77) ²¹  And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a large number who believed turned to the Lord.

When you believe in Jesus as your Savior and Lord you automatically turn to Him in times of need It is a reflex action that certified your admission to be true and without fabrication. Your knees drop to the floor and hyour heart and soul soar like an eagle. Your strength is renewed and you are in joyous submission to your King. Your commission is strength ended by the transmission of your willingness to His acceptance.

As a true Christian your whole life is through Christ. Like hot water through aromatic coffee grounds what goes in comes out completely different and fully acceptable to the Lord. Your love is true and it rises to only one approval: that which only Jesus can bestow.

Agape love can do nothing other but evoke dedicated trust from all it touches. Our Lord never lets those who are His down. He is completely trustworthy and fellowship with Him and His is inevitable; all other social contacts than those of the church are incomparable and forced. You      can’t hang out with dirty people and not get dirty. WE are in this world but not of it. Our home is our reward and our pilgrimage of the Lord’s assignment to affect His will.

It becomes a serious act of worship to go about the work of the Father. There is a joy that only a child of the promise would experience and a feeling only someone of like salvation would understand. Being and doing service in His will gives a perfect fit of safety and contentment.

The resources that are needs come from unexpected places and it really becomes humorous to see the Lord perform the task or provide the resource prayed for. I never tire of His surprises!

The wages of sin is death but the reward of our Lord’s imputed righteousness is eternity in God’s presence. Now I don’t know for sure what happens the other side of our last heartbeat but I believe the Lord gave me a glimpse of it one night when I repented of my sins back to the moment of my birth, as well as I could remember.

I felt encompassed by love like being immersed under water. Then the love soaked through me and I became love!

I know, I know that if that’s all eternity is, that’s all I want.