Day 353: True Communion With God - Devotional

The Return ^ | November 10, 2021

[metmom]

Many Christians talk about intimacy with the Lord, walking with him, knowing him, having fellowship with him; but we can’t have true communion with God unless we receive into our hearts the full revelation of his love, grace and mercy.

Communion with God consists of two things: 1. Receiving the love of the Father 2. Loving him in return

You can spend hours each day in prayer, telling the Lord how much you love him, but that isn’t communion. If you haven’t received his love, you haven’t had communion with him. You simply can’t share intimacy with the Lord unless you’re secure in his love for you.

I know when I come to my Lord, I’m not coming to a hard, fierce, demanding Father. He doesn’t wait for me with an angry countenance. He doesn’t trail me, waiting for me to fail so he can say, “I caught you!”

No, I’m coming to a Father who has revealed himself to me as pure, unconditional love. He’s kind and tenderhearted, full of grace and mercy, anxious to lift all my cares and burdens. I know he’ll never turn me down when I call on him.

The prophet Zephaniah says something incredible about God’s love for us. He writes, “The Lord your God in your midst, the Mighty One, will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing” (Zephaniah 3:17, NKJV).

God rests in his love for his people. In Hebrew, the phrase “He will rest in his love” reads, “He shall be silent because of His love.” God is saying, in essence, “I’ve found my true love, and I’m satisfied. I don’t need to look elsewhere because I have no complaint, and I won’t take my love back. My love is a settled matter!”

He cares about everything concerning me (see Psalm 100). Can you receive his word that he loved you before the world was created, before humankind existed, before you were born? Can you accept that he loved you even after you fell into Adam’s sinful ways and became an enemy to him? That’s why I come into his courts with praise and thanksgiving because I’m thankful for who my God is.

[metmom]

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[whitney69]

“…and I won’t take my love back. My love is a settled matter!”

But that doesn’t mean that God forgives every sin.

Mark 3:29
“But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”—

Luke 12:10
“And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.”

There’s a lot of reference in the chapters of the Bible that displays that God will not forgive this sin.

But this sin doesn’t directly apply to just the single act of insult. Blasphemy is an insult that shows contempt, disrespect or lack of reverence, concerning God. If a person accomplishes and unholy act and then tries to use God to absolve his soul intending to do the sin again, is that blasphemy as it is? And then how many timers is God expected for forgive a sin by your asking when you are insulting him with your false request trying to cheat and lie to God? Even in the Ten Commandments there are enough rules to follow that without meaning it, is a blasphemy to send your soul south.

And this is where I take offense to the Catholic determination that Biden can start taking communion again as he has not given up the abortion issue. He is lying to God and supporting the taking of innocent lives created by God.

Proverbs 6:16 - 6:19

16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Sound like someone you know?

Wy69