Let's Rest in What He's Already Poured Into Us!

[Vine Abider]

I read this in a devotional today and thought to post it here.  I often think I need to work something up in order to live this Christian life properly.  But the fact, as stated so many times in the New Testament, is this - with Christ in us He has already put all we need into us!  We just need to rest in that most wonderful fact.  It reminded me of this verse in Phil 2:12-13:

"Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both the willing and the working for His good pleasure."

"And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, Abba, Father!" (Galatians 4:6) The love of God is now in the Holy Spirit. It is concentrated there. This love is being dispensed into us, poured out in us, through the Holy Spirit. So when we speak about the love-life of the bride, we are not speaking about natural energy that tries to work up a love for God. We are talking about relaxing and resting in a poured-out love that already exists in our spirits and hearts. All we have to do is give voice to it. Just give voice to it a little bit. Echo it. Praise in His praising! Sing in His singing! Love in His loving!

To have the Spirit of the Son in our hearts crying out, "Abba, Father" seems somewhat objective. It seems that we need to put a stethoscope up to our heart and listen for an "Abba, Father." But when Romans 8:15 says, "You have received a spirit of sonship in which we cry out, Abba! Father!" (NASV), it becomes subjective in our experience.  Who is crying "Abba, Father"?  The Son in our hearts or we in our spirits? By putting Galatians 4:6 together with Romans 8:15, we can see that there is one crying and also one loving. He cries in our crying, He loves in our loving. In our crying, it is Him. In our loving, it is Him. It is Him crying, loving, worshipping, and saying "Abba." By this we see that there is one love, and this one marvelous love poured out in our hearts is what we are giving voice to.

[Neighbor]

13 hours ago, Vine Abider said:

And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, Abba, Father!" (Galatians 4:6)

Hi all, I especially appreciate the exposition ( of the entire Bible) by John Gills  regarding this verse. It is quite lengthy and is readily available  through Biblehub.

..."A snippet from that lengthy exposition of this one little verse  follows: declared to be the sons of God under the witnessings of the Spirit, they are freed from the servitude of sin, from the captivity of Satan, from the slavery of the world, and particularly from the law, and that spirit of bondage which it brought upon them, which is chiefly designed; and from which they are delivered by the spirit of adoption, enabling and encouraging them to cry "Abba", Father; so that they are now no more under the former servile spirit, the spirit of a servant, 

but a son; whose spirit, state, and case, are vastly different from those of a servant: the servant has not that interest in his master's affections as the son has; nor that liberty of access to him; nor is he fed and clothed as he is, or shares in the same privileges he does; nor is his obedience performed in the same free generous manner, from a principle of love and gratitude, but in a servile and mercenary way; and though he may expect his wages, he cannot hope for the inheritance; nor does he always abide in the house as the son does. He that is once a son, is always so, and no more a servant: predestination to sonship is immutable; it is God's act to put any among the children, and none can put them out; the covenant of grace, in which this blessing is secured, is unalterable; union with Christ, the Son of God, on which it is founded, is indissoluble; the spirit of adoption, wherever he witnesses, abides as such. "....

 

[steve morrow]

GROW  IN  GRACE 

 

1 CORINTHIANS 13:11  when I was a child I spake as a child I understood as a child  --- but when I became a man I put away childish things ---

1 TIMOTHY 3:6  not a novice lest being lifted with  --PRIDE--  he fall into the condemnation of the devil

 

LUKE 11:13  if you then being evil know how to give good gifts unto your children ---how much more shall your heavenly  FATHER  give the holy spirit to them that ask  HIM

 

ACTS 5:30  the  GOD  of our fathers raised up  JESUS  whom you slew and hanged on a tree

--5:31--  HIM  hath  GOD  exalted with  HIS  right hand to be a prince and a saviour for to give repentance to israel and forgiveness of sins 

--5:32--  and we are witnesses of these things and so is also the holy spirit ---whom  GOD  hath given to them that  OBEY  HIM---

JOHN 6:63  it is the spirit that quickeneth the flesh profit nothing the words that I speak unto you ---they are spirit and they are life---

 

PROVERBS 15:4  A  WHOLESOME  TONGUE  IS  A  TREE  OF  LIFE  ---BUT  PERVERSENESS  THEREIN  IS  A  BREACH  IN  THE  SPIRIT---

 

1 TIMOTHY 6:3  ---if any man---  teach otherwise and consent not to wholesome words ---EVEN  THE  WORDS  OF  OUR  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST---and to the doctrine which is according to godliness 

--6:4-- he is proud ---KNOWING  NOTHING--- but doting about questions and strifes of words whereof cometh envy strife railings evil surmisings 

--6:5-- perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds ---and destitute of the truth--- supposing that gain is godliness --- FROM  SUCH  WITHDRAW  THYSELF 

--6:6--  BUT  GODLINESS  WITH  CONTENTMENT IS  GREAT  GAIN

 

2 PETER 3:18  BUT  GROW  IN  GRACE  ---AND  IN  THE  KNOWLEDGE  OF  OUR  LORD  AND  SAVIOUR  JESUS  CHRIST--- TO  HIM  BE  GLORY  BOTH  NOW  AND  FOREVER    AMEN

 

LOVING  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST