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True Life
True Life
(#174 from Suffer Well Devotional Series©)
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For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. (2 Corinthians 5:4)
Do not be dismayed at what is missing in your life, for your life is incomplete in your earthly tent (body). Please allow your mind to expand to understand the simple realities of why you can still groan, yet endure; pressure equals growth in the Kingdom of Yahweh. Through the Messiah, you have all you need for life and holy reverence (2 Peter 1:3), but never was that intended to be the end of things. Your yearning is due to the fact that you are a spirit being trapped in an earthly tent. This will not always be; the completion of all things planned for you has yet to be unveiled.
I don’t allow for excuses; As I said, My Son proved that “My favor (grace) is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, then, I [Shaul] shall rather boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of the Messiah rests on me. (2 Corinthians 12:9)
Listen My child; My point in giving you Scripture is to increase your wisdom of Me, and of My plans for you. Do not be intimidated by the fact that even in My Son, you would still yearn for something more. Did I not tell you that I planned it this way? The impartation of My Spirit, the Spirit that abides in you, is a deposit, a pledge of what is to come (2 Corinthians 5:5). This deposit is more than enough to bring you to the fullness of righteousness (faith in action by faith in Yahshua). However, My full dose is yet to come. There is still work to do.
When My Son hands all kingdoms of the earth to Me, when He has brought to naught all rule and all authority and power (1 Corinthians 15:24), then you will experience My full measure. Until then, you play a vital part in My plan. I need you to achieve the full measure of what I have given you up to now. Faith, hope, and love; these things you must excel at before more is given. Why would I increase your portion when you fail to utilize the fullness of the portion you now have? My Son will have a perfected bride.
Perhaps you should attain to this perfection? Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Yahshua the Messiah has also laid hold of me. (Philippians 3:12) Though many of you disregard perfection as a possibility, today is a new day. Today you can realize it is much more than a possibility; it is a command loved one! (Matthew 5:48) It is the end goal, the finish line, the Kingdom of Yahweh.
The lion (fierce thoughts) and the lamb (fearful thoughts) lying (rest in conscience) together in peace (a settled mind). (Isaiah 11:6)
Love’s Attributes (16) Love Never Fails
Love’s Attributes (16)
(#170 from Suffer Well Devotional Series©)
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“Love never fails!” (1 Corinthians 13:7)
Love never fails, and therefore, Yahweh never fails!
This final pillar of love is the one upon which all others lean. In Hebrew reckoning, sixteen (one-six) is seven, and seven is “completion.” The true and complete essence of love, the only love, is that it never fails.
And so now, or once again, shall we say, we face the crux of the matter. We could sum it up with a simple question. “Have you told someone that you love them, and yet failed at any one of the sixteen attributes of love?” The sixteenth itself leaves no room for failure, and so the answer to the question for everyone becomes obvious. We teach others that love can fail because we profess to love them, while at the same time we are failing them. It is imperative you grasp the magnitude of this, thus we will repeat it! We teach others that love can fail because we profess to love them, while at the same time we are failing them. The effect of our fatal error is that we all mature with a sinking mindset about what love is, and then we sail that brokenness right into our relation-ship with the only One who ever truly loved.
Does it seem so difficult to understand why all of us have such a hard time trusting Yahweh? We spend our lives (conscious awareness) believing that our broken standard of idolatrous “love” is the real thing, only to have failed at love at every level. And because this love has always been unfulfilling in some way, our preconceived subconscious and conscious thoughts are that Yahweh’s love will also fail us. This leads to the inevitable conclusion that “His love will not be any different than everything else we called love, all of which have failed us in the past.”
We have never been, nor have we known a love that never fails, so the perception of it is far beyond us. To bring it closer, we must come face-to-face with our years of desecration of His love. “Father, forgive me for high-jacking Your created truth of love, and trying to use it to fit my own personal standards of love. I confess that I have never loved, nor have I learned to receive Your perfect love. Will You help me learn to be a true lover, so I can first love You Father, and then love others?” This is the prayer that will transform your own image of love into His image of love. This prayer of repentance, deeply embraced in your renewing conscience, will remove the flaming sword from the Tree of Life, and give you access once again to the abundant life that was always intended for the children of Yahweh! You are His child, His child whom He loves beyond your ability to perceive. And He is coming soon! If you have not experienced love by then, you will. But heed this admonishment; when you reflect on your life, you will consider every single moment that you did not live in true love wasted!
I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another. By this shall all [men] know that you are My disciples, if you love one another [if you keep on showing love among yourselves]. (John 13:34-35)
Love’s Attributes (13) Love Believes all things
Love’s Attributes (13)
(#167 from Suffer Well Devotional Series©)
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“Love believes all things!” (1 Corinthians 13:7)
Love believes all things, and therefore, Yahweh believes all things!
It’s elementary really. Love believes all things that Yahweh says! This is never a license to conjure up personal hopes and desires as, “your life is not your own!” (1 Corinthians 6:19) It is the mature believer who comes to the conscious revelation that it is easy for man to receive the hope of the blessings; but the wise follower also receives the path to the blessings. The path of obedience (complete mind discipline) and removal of the ego (opposition to the mind of Messiah).
Do you believe that suffering furthers perfection? (James 1:4) Do you believe Yahweh’s rod is a tool of righteousness? Do you believe that life on earth, as it is today, will never be the Kingdom that Yahweh demands allegiance towards? Do you believe Yahshua’s death actually guarantees yours?
If so, we step further into love’s realm. Once we believe “all” things Yahweh says, then we believe we will be transformed into His likeness. Is this not the end goal of His love, to be One with Yahweh?
Son’s and daughter’s believe that what Yahweh claims to be truth, is truth, and what Yahweh says is a lie, is just that. They entertain no carnal fantasies about earth life, and particularly, earth love, just simple truths leading to One love. This is the way, walk in it!
I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another. By this shall all [men] know that you are My disciples, if you love one another [if you keep on showing love among yourselves]. (John 13:34-35)
Love’s Attributes (12) Love does not betray
Love’s Attributes (12)
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“Love does not betray!” (1 Corinthians 3:7)
Love does not betray, and therefore, Yahweh does not betray!
Betrayal, the twelfth pillar of love’s opposite, embodies the very deception that is at the root of “false” beliefs about love. How is that? Because to betray is to forsake love itself. You have learned to justify such behavior by erroneously categorizing love into individual types such as, friendly love, intimate love, and brotherly love. This is a delusion as there is only one love, and it is defined solely by its Creator, Yahweh! If you are willing to accept it, redefining love is really an attempt to justify watering down Yahweh’s love into some imposter like “human love” or “natural love”. Any diluted and cheapened version of love will always lead to failure.
How so?
Anything that claims to be love, yet fails at any of the sixteen pillars (attributes) of love is a sham. Your willingness to dilute love because of your unwillingness to accept Yahweh’s standard of love will only keep you from experiencing the purity of His love. This compromise is a delusion; and this delusion is the ultimate betrayal and is why betrayal itself embodies the great deception.
“What can you do to remedy this delusion?” You confess your rebellion to Yahweh, of course. “I am an imposter Yahweh. I’ve attempted to redefine love so it fits my standards and makes me ‘feel’ like I am doing what You desire.” Repentance will then release His love over you, so you can then give it away to others. Repentance is the path back to knowing His true love.
I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another. By this shall all [men] know that you are My disciples, if you love one another [if you keep on showing love among yourselves]. (John 13:34-35)
Love’s Attributes (11) Love rejoices in the truth
Love’s Attributes (11)
(#165 from Suffer Well Devotional Series©)
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“Love rejoices in the truth!” (1 Corinthians 13:6)
Love rejoices in the truth, and therefore, Yahweh rejoices in the truth!
And Pilate, representing personal will, said to Yahshua, who represents mind salvation offered to men, “What is truth?” (John 18:38) Is this not the foremost question? For if it is knowing the truth that sets you free (John 8:32), then it is imperative you know it!
The Hebraic origin of truth describes this: stability, trustworthiness, certainty, to build, support, and foster. Truth takes us from the foundation (beginning phase of spiritual perception) to the mountaintop (exalted consciousness). This truth of Yahweh is a journey.
Yahshua is the example of a life lived in and by the truth. We also know that He was set free and set the standard for those who would also be given the chance to find this perfect freedom within. “Whomever the Son sets free is free indeed.” (John 8:36)
“And whoever does not carry his yoke [mind stake], and walk [in truth] after Me [the mind saver], cannot be My disciple.” (Luke 14:27) The “self” cannot comprehend Holy truth, and it is this personal will that must be nailed to the stake daily. The torture stake is the meeting place of the Spiritual and the carnal. We have been given the pattern; do not attempt to perceive truth with your own understanding (Proverbs 3:5). You must daily, hourly, and even moment by moment, eradicate any desire of the “self” that attempts to hinder the Truth.
“Not my will, but Your will” (Luke 22:42) is the pinnacle of truth, and therefore a Holy pillar of love.
I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another. By this shall all [men] know that you are My disciples, if you love one another [if you keep on showing love among yourselves]. (John 13:34-35)
Love’s Attributes (9) Love thinks no evil
Love’s Attributes (9)
(#163 from Suffer Well Devotional Series©)
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“Love thinks no evil!” (1 Corinthians 13:5)
Love thinks no evil, and therefore, Yahweh thinks no evil!
Evil, bad, spoiled, and afflicted, again as we delve into Hebrew origins, we are quick to find evil’s true meaning. If afflicted, afflicted where? In the conscience of course, in processes of thought! Therefore, if the mind is evil in thought, the mind is afflicted.
Evil is a fruit of a different kind; it rots from its core outward, from the center of consciousness out into the physical realm. We can see that it first destroys the one thinking evil and then it taints all that it comes in contact with. And even as they did not like to retain the Almighty in their knowledge, the Mighty One gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting. (Romans 1:28)
This ninth attribute of love is dealt with using much patience and faith, and this in Yahweh alone. If man could not, nor would ever choose righteousness, right thinking (Romans 3:10), then it only stands as holy truth that every thought produced from the “self” is evil. (Ecclesiastes 8:11) Be of good cheer loved one, as Yahshua the Messiah has provided a way for your mind to be redeemed. Shedding the blood (life force) of the “self”, He has shown the pattern, the narrow path, for the removal of all evil in conscience. For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. (Hebrews 10:2) “How does that happen?” you ask. “Your thoughts are not your own,” of course (John 12:49)! The pattern is to learn obedience to Yahweh’s commands alone, forsaking some supposed “free will” choice to do good. Obedience removes the evil within loved one. Obey and let Yahweh cleanse!
I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another. By this shall all [men] know that you are My disciples, if you love one another [if you keep on showing love among yourselves]. (John 13:34-35)
Love’s Attributes (8) Love is not provoked
Love’s Attributes (8)
(#162 from Suffer Well Devotional Series©)
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“Love is not provoked!” (1 Corinthians 13:5)
Love is not provoked, and therefore, Yahweh is not provoked!
From its origination in Hebrew and the context of different words dealing with provocation, it is always love’s enemy that does the provoking. And though love is never hindered by it, identifying the provoker is the key.
So what are love’s enemies? Hate, pride, resentment, selfishness, greed, and on and on it goes. And, from where do these enemies derive? That’s right, from none other than the ego of man. But be of good cheer loved one, as love is not provoked. It will never be defeated by the vain conditions of the mind of man.
And this eighth attribute of love, or pillar as we gain a mental picture, speaks as the previous seven; it mocks any offense, as love itself is unoffendable. Again, love is complete as it is. Created by Yahweh as a revelation of His essence, love is filled with the power of Yahweh, the power to attain to the exact purpose of its existence. Ask yourself, “Was man created for love, or was love created for man?” How you answer this says much, and you would do well to seek His face and receive His answer.
Remember loved one, when scripture reveals that Yahweh is not provoked, it is never that love has felt the need to be anything other than what it already is. The provoking is illustrated to show you how the ego is always in opposition to the truth about love, ever straining to compromise it with intellectual and emotional rationalization!
I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another. By this shall all [men] know that you are My disciples, if you love one another [if you keep on showing love among yourselves]. (John 13:34-35)
Love’s Attributes (7) Love Does Not Seek Its Own
Love’s Attributes (7)
(#161 from Suffer Well Devotional Series©)
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“Love does not seek its own!” (1 Corinthians 13:5)
Love does not seek its own, and therefore, Yahweh does not seek His own!
And how is it that this seventh attribute of love can be true? How is it even possible that love never seeks its own? It is simple; and at the same time it is very profound loved one. Pay attention now; listen with your mind. Love comes fully equipped! I’ll say it again; love comes fully equipped! It is complete in its design, and its design is intended to fill your soul. It will fill your soul with many things, the chief being the realization of oneness with Yahweh. And with that oneness comes the fulfillment of “Thou shall not want!” (Psalm 23:1)
Love needs nothing else for its completion; it is complete. Maybe it sounds simpler to say, “Yahweh is love” and in this we find that love is everything Yahweh is, and therefore it lacks nothing! Do not be confused at the idea that Yahweh’s demand to be exalted above all else is Yahweh needing this glorification in order to somehow be more complete. His majesty is complete and it is the realization of this majesty alone that brings the idea of reverent worship towards Him. This is a natural byproduct of the saved mind.
With our defining of love, we are left with a stake we must bear. This stake is our denial of “self” will. “If I tell someone I love them, but get offended when they do not love me the way I want, then I could not possibly be complete in love (complete in Yahweh). Love never seeks anything for itself!” Love never needs more than what it already is! Love is always a giver and never a spoiled taker. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves. (Philippians 2:3) Sear it into your conscience loved one. Walk it out, repent and be cleansed!
I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another. By this shall all [men] know that you are My disciples, if you love one another [if you keep on showing love among yourselves]. (John 13:34-35)
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Love’s Attributes (4) Love is Not Boastful
Love’s Attributes (4)
(#158 from Suffer Well Devotional Series©)
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“Love is not boastful!” (1 Corinthians 13:4)
Love is not boastful, and therefore, Yahweh is not boastful!
Shaul urged Timothy to; “Teach no other doctrine,” (1Timothy 1:3) so, as with jealously, we find the need to define terms in order to hold to pure doctrine. “I am Yahweh and there is no other” (Exodus 20:3) should make His doctrine on boasting quite clear. When it comes to boasting, it is Yahweh who expects all the glory! Shaul says, “Of such a One I will boast; yet of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities.” (2. Corinthians 12:5) And he also admits, “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells.” (Romans 7:18) And so, in this boasting on Him alone, we could only see beauty if He who claims all the glory saves us from our own depravity. If He was to boast, yet leave us in our fallen state, could this be described as perfect love? Of course not, and so we see that Yahweh alone is due His boasting.
As for us, the redeemed, love speaks to our carnal ways of boasting. And though all such boasting is horrid, there are the worse kinds of boasting. False humility (Colossians 2:18-23) and self-righteousness (Romans 10:3) are the worst of the ego’s ways of boasting. Pride and spirituality have no place in the same conscience chosen for salvation; for it is the contrite and humble mind that would never boast of its own importance.
If you are to be saved (a redeemed conscience, fully given over to Yahweh’s commands) by Him, then how could you ever have anything to do with such a grand design? It was by the death of One (Hebrews 2:14, Romans 5:15) that many men would be saved, and it is that death alone that opens His mind within man’s conscience. What credit can you take for this, other than the murder of the One who died for you? I will not boast!
I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another. By this shall all [men] know that you are My disciples, if you love one another [if you keep on showing love among yourselves]. (John 13:34-35)