Morning Musings-Confidence on the Day of Judgment

   

 Morning Musings with the boys at breakfast...







Proof of our belonging to God, of being on God's side, is that we have His Holy Spirit in us.  When we acknowledge what John writes about in 1 John 4:13-18, that "Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in us and we in Him."  We will "know and rely on the love God has for us" (vs 15, 16).

In turn, we can have confidence on the day of judgment.  Confidence to know we don't have to fear that day since we are "made complete" by God's love in us; by our acknowledging Jesus is the Son of God and that the Holy Spirit is in us.

This love that comes from God drives out any fear we may have of that day.  Fear of punishment and of many other things, no doubt.  If we do have any fear that means the love is not yet perfected.  So let's learn to appropriate God's love more fully.  There's no lack of love on God's part; only on our degree of trust in Him and our understanding of how great God and His love is and of what that love has accomplished for us.

Let's get this information into our being....we do not have to fear judgment nor punishment because we belong to God now through Jesus our Savior and the proof or seal or guarantee is His Holy Spirit indwelling each and every believer in Jesus Christ.  Get this into your minds and hearts.  Trust in Him.  Revel in His love.  Know you are loved by him.  Have that confidence in God and His love, and be at peace; perfect peace perfected in and by God's love for us.  We can rely on Him and His Word.

When we have the confidence to have confidence in God and His Word; to rely on His love; and gain that peace and assurance that God is in us, we, in turn, can, and should, then show this love to others.  As we see in 1 John 4:19-21, we need to show this love to our brothers and sisters-in-Christ.  If we do not, we are called "liars".  How is it a person could love someone, in this case, God, whom he can't see, yet hate someone he can see?  Even in natural human connections this would seem crazy.  However, this is a good test of which 'spirit' we have; that spirit of falsehood, or our loving heavenly Father, God's Spirit whom we call the Holy Spirit.

Holy Spirit of Love and Grace

There are many difficult people, even among our own brothers and sisters-in-Christ, I can assure you and agree with you.  Yet, when we love as our heavenly Father loves and follow His example to love "whosoever" (John 3:16), it will stretch us to show God's love, even to them.  This is how God's love works to activate His grace going out beyond ourselves and our own desires.  May we be stretched and grown in our God-like love and grow to be ever more like Him as our confidence in Him increases in ever increasing measure.  In this we will gain greater "perfection" of God's love within us and when the Day of Judgment arrives, we will have nothing to fear.

                                                       ~ERC  2016~