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Receiving In Love by Larry M. Jaynes Giving can certainly give us an incredibly good feeling. However, when it comes to receiving from God or others, the human mind sometimes seems to refute these blessings either because of sin consciousness or a feeling of unworthiness. Yet God wants to bless our lives and He wants to give us the desires of our heart and He has already made us worthy to receive His blessings. Romans 12:1 I BESEECH you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. Our God, with His divine mercies, is calling, beseeching us to present ourselves to Him having been already made holy and acceptable to Him, and this is reasonable for us to believe for it is the truth and the will of God. God wants all the blessings that He can possibly bestow upon us to be graciously accepted by us. It is truly up to the individual how much he will actually receive from God by believing His Word and then receiving all His spiritual blessings.Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto {the power of} God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me {Jesus Christ’s own believing faith by which he sanctified us}. This was the ministry of the Apostle Paul – to open our eyes so that we may see, to turn our lives from the darkness of this world to the light of God’s healing Word, to deliver us from the power of Satan to the power of God, with this purpose – that we may receive from God genuine forgiveness, and that we may receive our rightful inheritance as the children of God. This ministry of Paul’s parallels the same ministry that Jesus Christ had (see Luke 4:16-21) when he was physically here blessing peoples lives and giving them the spiritual joys that can only come from the Creator of life. Receiving God’s gifts can become a natural response as we learn to receive with the love of God in our hearts that we are totally deserving of. Do you remember the story of the ten lepers who wanted Jesus to have mercy on them and heal them of their leprosy? Well Jesus indeed healed them, but only one returned to give him thanks; let us look at this in Luke. Luke 17:17-19 And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger. And he {Jesus} said unto him {the one who returned}, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole. Ten were healed, ten received blessings from God through Jesus Christ, yet only one was truly thankful for the mercies of God – the same mercies that God beseeches us to accept. The other nine followed the nature of most people to refute the graces of God. But that man who returned to give glory to God, Jesus further said that his faith (which was his believing action in accepting the gift of healing to the point that he returned to give thanks), is what gave him (not the other nine) wholeness. To thankfully accept the gifts of God in love gives us true spiritual wholeness, and wholeness gives to the children of God real and defined purpose and direction in life. Larry M. Jaynes |
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