Imagine the most amazing thing you might even hope He might do for you.
Ponder the uttermost ways He might use you to bring Himself glory.
Remember the most exquisite joy you have ever experienced, and project this to the greatest heights you can touch at the edge of your spirit’s senses.
Comprehend (if this were possible) an eternity of eternities rolling out before you as He only begins to show you the depth of the center of His amazing heart towards us all.
Begin to imagine knowing the very mind and heart and Person of G_d. For now, this same Heart will be yours – and yours His – forever.
Got it? Getting a glimpse?
It’s not even close.
Oh beloved as we read His Word – the place whereupon hearing it, faith does come – we begin to see that G_d has plans for us that simply go beyond any concept which can be imagined. They are beyond imagine. They are beyond language.
Enter faith.
At its uttermost, faith is this deep knowledge, beyond reason or comprehension, of the Life G_d has already brought us into. We cannot see it in our minds. And even our soul, with its profound ability to comprehend intellectual and life truth, cannot grasp the infinite. Only spirit can do this. And it is in this place of spiritual interface with the very Person of G_d that we begin to see that all this amazing stuff about heaven and hell and Him and Love and victory and the Kingdom is absolutely real.
We can taste it.
We can see it.
We can hear the wind of His Spirit whipping the flag of Zion upon the great standard that will stand in that Kingdom’s capital.
And so, this is why faith is so pleasing to G_d. For, as we begin to know Him through the engagement of faith, we are going through a betrothal period wherein the genuine and beautiful anticipation of an astoundingly powerful consummation grows and grows and grows.
Can we see it? G_d is pleased with our faith because, through it, we are beginning to experience the Love and Joy and Righteousness and Peace we already supposed to have in Him. And as a good husband would always want good for his bride in all things, our Groom is delighted when we feel the pleasure He is working to impart in us.
So, as He graciously gives us tests to increase our faith, we come to understand that the maturity He is guiding us into, is not to become tougher and stronger and able to weather more problems. No, the tests are designed to engrave within us the conviction that He is good. And as we become convinced, we begin to experience the reality of the eternal Life we have already entered: We are His friends. We are His Lovers. We are His bride. And the G_d who is Himself Love – and who does not change – is working to bring everything good within His power to directly to us.
This is very good news.
And it only gets better.
Oh my!
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