Keeping God at a Distance
Where we have Him in our intellect and an idea of Him but we don’t have Him in our daily lives living through us expressing His goodness to a dark world. We are sometimes known in the heaven lies as the generation of unbelieving believers. Holy Spirit is intent on intimacy with His bride. Jesus is coming for His bride not the organizational church. The kingdom of God will never be produced by the Church, the Church can only be seen in His Kingdom people, the beloved bride, you and me. In spite of most but not all church paradigms to keep God at a distance safe within our doctrines and theologies where He is less likely to be encountered we can easily explain to others why we don’t have what His word says we should have. So many are being drawn to Him and must have His presence above all else which produces the most divine worship, living joy and most of all fruitful abundant victorious living in Christ now, today.
Fear and unbelief are the primary agents (spirits) keeping you from the fullness of the abundant life available to you in Christ now. Did God produce a world that was safe with no danger? Was the garden of Eden child proof where we could do ourselves no harm? Was there not a serpent, did not death come from the disobedience of the one man Adam, which by the way we were all with him in his body, we would have done no better. When the Father, the Creator of all things draws near to you anything that is not under His love and truth about who you really are in Christ He will kill it. My hiddeness and yours is exposed to Him it always has been, where the only ones under the illusion that we can hide our brokenness from the loving gaze of the Father. His love turns to light and exposes us where we need to be touched and healed and come under His judgments which for the believer actually set us free, there not about punishment. Is it scary, yes it is actually frightening (in a good way) to come into the presence of God because He is so beautiful, magnificent, breathtaking, lovely and He is truth there is no hiding from Him all our shame and guilt are exposed and forgiven because love holds no memory of the wrongs done against it. God is perfect love and all fear is cast out in His presence.
Our will can keep us from encountering Him as He really is because of the sophistication of our unbelief and fear of Him coming to close to us. We at some point will encounter Him as He really is and no amount of hiddeness will prevent that. But taste and see (experience) that He is good. Many of us are so fearful of what might happen when we encounter Him, will you weep, laugh, dance, stand in awestruck wonder. Or rather will the fear of man hold you spellbound that you would not allow the expression of the Holy One to flow through you. Heaven is a place of joyful exhilaration, worship, dancing, expressions of love, passionate it is not often a place for the somber. Heaven has come to earth through the Kingdom God placed in you, it comes out of you in joyful expressions of worship, healing, teaching, exhortations of all kinds, beloved. The Lord has said to us don’t be afraid little ones to be who I made you to be for I am with you even to the end of your days on earth to your first day in eternity which began before the earth was even formed.
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John Kloos-For Such A Day As This
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