Good morning, all!
Father, we know that You hold all the mysteries of life in Your hand, and nothing ever is a surprise to You. Lord, help us to trust You when uncertainty arises and allow us to hear Your voice through every storm we face, we know You are the only true anchor in our life, Amen. Call me crazy, but if God is a sure thing why do we have uncertainty?
Matthew 5
15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
Nobody lights a candle just to bury it, but they place it on a candlestick; so that it will GIVE light to ALL that are in the house.
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Let YOUR light so shine before mankind, so they can see your GOOD works and bring glory to our Father in heaven.
17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
After all I don’t want you to THINK that God’s word should be used to condemn people, I’m not here to be cruel to anyone, but to make good on God’s promises for ALL mankind.
18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
I truly tell you, until you remove thinking that separates your heaven and earth, NOT one period or comma of MY word will pass away until every bit of it be fulfilled.
Bottom line
Of course these are the words of Jesus Christ from the greatest sermon ever preached, sermon on the mount. Let’s start with the easy part, we are the candlestick and we’re useless unless we have a flame sitting on top of the stick, right? Now what exactly is atop our candlestick? Yeah, it’s our face. How do we light it?
[Psa 31:16 NIV] 16 Let your face shine on your servant; save me in your unfailing love. Ahh so simple yet it will take a lifetime to perfect, it’s love and NOT only love but unfailing love. Has your love ever failed? And our light should be a light to ALL, and this is why it takes a lifetime…we don’t always love everyone…that’s when we hide it under a bushel. The problem with that is our Father can’t see it and when it’s NOT seen we don’t give God glory. Now before we get too sanctimonious or perhaps judgmental, we think some are NOT in the house.
[Heb 3:4 CSB] Now every house is built by someone, but the one who built everything is God. Everything is everything…ALL are the house of God and so we’re clear He’s talking about His house not yours…He knows you might keep some folk out. What it comes down to here in this passage is Jesus is calling us to live ONE life…FAITH all day every day. Heaven is identified here as the will of God and earth is a picture of the will of man, we have two separate worlds and therefore we don’t always treat everyone or every circumstance the same…with love. God’s word can NEVER be wrong that’s why it will never pass away. What has to pass away is our thoughts and ideas about His word, His heaven and His earth. The two become one, earth is just like heaven…I mean God dwells in the heaven and His word says His kingdom will never move or end. So how does the earth become just like heaven? That’s where you and I come in, we do the will of the Father…thy kingdom COME Thy will be done on earth just like it is in heaven. What is the will of the Father?
[Mat 18:14 KJV] Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish. God’s will is that not even the least significant person should perish, NOT one. Is there anything that can stop God’s will if He chooses that none should perish? Yeah, He wins and gets all His houses back. So, stay with me, the will of heaven is nobody will perish…the Greek word means to render useless or worthless. Is there someone in your life perhaps you consider a little less significant, maybe even worthless? Then heaven and earth hasn’t passed yet, you still have two worlds…your earth prevailed, and your heaven is silent.
[Jhn 1:51 KJV] And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man. Heaven is OPEN, all we have to do is ascend FIRST so we can get the message from God and then descend back to the earth with that message. What’s the message? You’re priceless and I LOVE YOU…congratulations heaven is OPEN!
Point to Ponder
When does it end? [Jer 29:11 KJV] 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. If you still have strife or conflict in your life then it’s NOT your end, God expects nothing but PEACE when all said and done!
Let everything pass away in this life except His kingdom, In Him Phil
Faith – Family – Friends