Mary Magdalene hung on to the resurrected Jesus like a woman in love – like a woman in love with resurrection, a woman in love with the resurrected Christ - for since she met Jesus new life was being stirred in her – and a new love had been given her - and she watched him and listened to him and followed him as his walk brought him to the cross of salvation - and she felt and heard the groans of pain and agony as they came from him – as they came from her - for what had grown in her was crucified as Jesus was crucified – for it was as though she herself had was being taken away and been killed – that she had been put to death, even though her flesh was still standing there, and her heart was still beating – but she felt dead - but it was from this death that she could now live the resurrection – that she could now live the resurrected life – she was alive in the body but had died in the spirit and her heart even though full of heaviness was now fully opened to receive the resurrected Christ without any doubts and without any question and without any fear – she was fully ready because she had been fully prepared – not for his death or his resurrection, but fully prepared in her heart to be now able to receive her resurrection and be resurrected herself just as Jesus was; now ready to have formed in her the risen Christ – which is the resurrection of all things which give us life in the full.
Mary hung on to Jesus like a woman who knew what it was like to have lost the essence of love in her mortal life, but now had the amazing revelation that it was alive to her, for her, and in her, and nothing could now take it away from her – for it was love of the eternal nature – the rich enduring love which is of a God nature – it was first love in its pure strain and the power of it reaches out to every corner of every universe and the holiness of it is held in God’s desired purpose for it, and it is held far away from men’s desires for it - otherwise it will be a love which will always die –
And we will never fall from our first love of Christ if we hang on to it out of the knowing of what it is, and what it holds – of what it means, of what has to die in us, and of what processes have to take place in us so first love can live in us as God’s desired and intended purpose for it comes and has its way in hearts which are now emptied, and are now ready to let God’s love travel its Godly path – for its way is to always make known the risen Christ to us more and more - for its way is that Christ is always first in our life - so that which God has resurrected in us always takes its first of place in us, for it will always make us know our God a little bit more – for if we place it anywhere else but first and foremost, we are denying of resurrection – we are doubting of resurrection – and we do not see it when it is right in front of us – nor hear it when it is right within our hearing -
For when we deny it, and doubt it, and fear it, and do not see it or hear it we will never know what is held in it for us – we will never know what a resurrected life holds for us, and we will never hear to understand what is held either in the many words that the Lord speaks to us – or in just the one word the Lord does pass from his lips to us – it may be one word uttered by the Lord to us when we least expect it – one word which the Father has allowed to be expressed to us, which holds in it the secret paths of our eternity –
The one word Jesus called out to Mary when she least expected it was her name – And all that it held for her - all that was placed in the calling our of her name was to be held in the confines of his Lordship –for such was its content that it had to remain sealed in all holiness - but it was also used to give out to her what she needed to hang on to in this world - it gave out all of which she felt for him – and what he felt for her - and it was expressed to her in the only way he could now respond to her – but it gave her what she needed to hang on to – to hold on to – for it was of the eternal realm, but was to be hung onto in the natural realm for it was of a power which transcends both the mortal and the immortal – if was of a power which makes it possible for it to be experienced and felt in the mortal life before it is taken into the immortal life - for it was real in both realms - but it was to be fully lived to its full power in the realm of no time, for it was of a nature which was endless - and it could not be held only in the confines of the mortal life – it was too powerful - and too perfect to live in an imperfect world – the perfection of it could not have been contained but also the reality of it could not be dismissed - for it was the joining of two hearts – the mortal with the immortal, and it was the sharing and partaking of the resurrection of Jesus Christ – the sharing and the partaking of the resurrection of Jesus Christ with Jesus Christ - And there was nothing which could divide them and there is nothing to divide us from Jesus - when we have shared and partaken in his resurrection and now have the resurrected life in abundance in us – life in the full is what Jesus came to give us and nothing can take that away from us – or kill it or make it of little value if we attain to the heights of the love which did give it to us – and if we live at the heights of first love and eat of its glory as we continue to die to ourselves and live only for Jesus Christ -
The death of Jesus - was the putting to death of our sinful life / our counterfeit life which came into being through our disregard of God - and from our hardness to his love - and the raising of him - the power and the life held in his resurrection was to be made known to us so we could do the things he had done and then the greater things - for Mary Magdalene was a walking testimony of what it does to us, and for us, and in us – it was to be preached - spoken – heralded out by her because she experienced the death of it to the depth, and width and height God so desired, and she went forward to meet with the life of it to the same depth, width and height God had so hoped for - she experienced the full song of it – the mournful melody which carried the pain - and the soft expressive overture of life resurrected – it was the soulful expression of us resurrected – and she then went to meet with the one who is himself the full song of songs which plays always in the Father’s heart so he can hear through his Son the resurrection of sons and daughters as they come with hearts longing for and hearts loving of Resurrection - and it was for Mary to preach it because she lived it – she sung it - it was her life – it was the testimony of her life – it was her love she was preaching – it was her death she was preaching - it was her resurrection she was preaching – all held in the resurrected Christ Jesus – all held within the Lord - for out of the pain of death did resurrect what could now not be held down –
Christ resurrected in us, is the resurrection of us - the love God feels for us now made alive in us, so we can now live feeling the love of God making known our Saviour to us - so we can now live feeling the life of God making known our salvation to us - making known what it really means to die to ourselves – making known what really happens when the power of the cross of Christ does put to death in us all that was nailed to it by Jesus Christ for us – knowing what really takes place within the Father’s heart when his Holy Spirit moves to bring us back to life – and to raise us up just as he did to Jesus – and then when we use that life to live the life of Jesus Christ – when we use what he has given us to live the life as that of his Son - the life of a man or woman who know their God - and who now walk as ones who know - and as ones who have stepped from the confines of humanity into the power of the eternal because of the sole reason that we want to glorify our Lord and make known to the world the life of the Resurrected One – the stature of the Resurrected One – and it is his love and his life and his full stature which we proudly wear and give testimony to through the power of the Holy Spirit - and what with great humility and with eternal joy do live in the abundance in which it was given and then to freely give what it is the Father holds in his heart for all to experience – especially those who love him with a love born out of the love of Resurrection and out of the love of the Resurrected Life.
The moment Mary realised Jesus was alive - the moment she moved from loving the Resurrection to loving the resurrected One – the moment that her pain and grief and sorrow turned to unimagined joy –– the moment she knew love would never die or be taken away from her again - the moment when she knew loving the Lord is love at its ultimate level – the moment she was consumed with the powerful knowledge that the love of her life had not left her to dwell in the pain of death, but had returned to take her into life eternal with him – the moment she stepped into the joy of eternity and what it held for her – was the moment resurrection became real to her - it was the moment life in all its fullness took its stand in her life - and no matter what was outwardly happening the abundance in her life would overtake and wrap within it the mortal endurances of her life, so her eternity was alive and active in her – it did not matter if she was not believed – it did not matter if she was rejected – it did not matter if her testimony was brief and held no substance or weight to others when heard – it did not matter what happened after that moment – for that moment became her revelation of her eternity – of God’s eternity - and what was, and will continue to be, would never be taken away from her – for she lived for her love and so her love was to live, and the gospel of it would always be hers – and no one could take it from her even if they took away her voicing of it – for it was already spoken out by her heart; she had already sang her love song of resurrection into the heart of the Son and into the heart of the Father, and they alone knew the depth to which it did run – and so from her heart to the heart of God it was preached and delivered to him with perfection - and the power of it would not cease or be put to rest - for it would have its outward release – it would take its voice into the world – men never prevail against God – and what he wants heard will be heard - and what Mary wants to say will be said ~ for it is already a part of God’s heart ~ and as the Father desires and as Jesus intends so will the Holy Spirit move so all unheard voices are now made audible - for in the way it was given by God so now will it be heard in the fullness of the way the Father desired and intended for it to be heard ~
This is what her gospel of the resurrection would have released - it would have released the life and the love in the resurrection - of the resurrected – for the resurrected One – it was to come from one who lived it, and felt it, and knew it from her heart and not only from her head – knew that life and love in Christ is now and forever – she was not filled with the power of the Spirit but she was filled with the power of knowing – of living – of loving – of being - for she lived it and spoke it from her heart and it was heard by the one who searches all hearts and knows the full truth of what they hold –
Others loved Jesus and were grieved at his death – but it had to be the love she had for him which the gospel was to come through – to come through her coated with her eternal love of Jesus which was held and protected in all God’s glory in the mortal and natural realm – it was to be coated with her pain which was real and without pretence – it was to be bathed with her tears which came burning with passion as they flowed down her cheeks and then down her neck and soaked into her garments - and it was to be anointed with the innermost treasures she held in her of the one she loved - as the gospel of the resurrection was preached from the depth of where she had been taken to - for God had taken her right into the core of her soul, for he had his Son on his mind - and it was only from the depths of her soul which could come what was needed to bring the gospel of the resurrection of his Son into its knowing – into its depth – into its rightful place in our hearts - for the depth of what Mary shared with Jesus - the depth of what the Father did stretch out to her to partake of is a revelation sealed in his heart – the depth of it held in the fullness of the revelations of Jesus Christ – unwritten to us unless we can read the Father’s heart – unknown to us unless we meet with him at the same place Mary did - and then it will not be her encounter with him that we will see, but it will be our encounter with him which will be the revelation released to us.
Mary did not only love Jesus because he was God incarnate – and because he was full of powerful teachings and had miracles and signs and wonders follow him – she loved him – alone – separate to what he was giving out – and speaking out – she set him apart from what was following him, and who was following him - and who he was, and who he would forever be – she set him apart from who he was and just loved him, and it was this response to him – this natural response from a heart which was not determined by, or based on any conditions which did become the cutting point - the sharp edge which cut into his newness – for it was the taking of the Lord and meeting with him in the solitude of her heart and setting her love in him first – stating her love for him first - even before she knew who he really was – before knowing all the details of his divinity - and this is what would pierce into his eternities and make them what had never been planned – it was Mary who took his life and added a new dimension – she expanded and extended what was unfelt and unknown in its experience to God - and it tore down another curtain which was concealing an eternity which could not be trespassed into - but now the curtain was torn and life for God had been increased and his abundance was now flowing back to him -
God is and will be forever at the farthest of heights and to be honoured and glorified and worshipped, but this was to take him even higher – it is what his glorification is made of - made of human beings who become an extension of God’s heart, and reach out to partake of Jesus and to set him apart as their own - as they stamp his heart with a seal of their love, their love which holds no conditions - and the Father is showered in this worship as it comes to him through Jesus - for it is love returned to him in the same stream which did flow out to us – sent back in the same flow of the same eternal nature – and was not waiting on the miracles or the power or what followed his presence to confirm this love for him ; and Mary’s love was confirmed and sealed with the approval of God when she was given the gospel of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ ~ for her heart had been seared with the fiery passion of God and she was a voice to be heard.
For how can we speak of who Christ is in our life- if we have not lived who he is in our life - and he was giving the preaching of the gospel of the resurrection of Christ Jesus to the one who had formed in them a love for Jesus which was of the nature of God – and only in this nature could it bring into being what would be an eternity of unlived love – an eternity where love unlived could not be lived in its Godly proportions – and it is only in this nature could she be entrusted with what was so joined to the heart of the Father - and if those who followed Jesus had listened and saw and heard past the one they had no time for – the one who seemed so absorbed in the things of the heart - then they would have heard the Father’s heart through her – they would have felt the pain of the Father though her – they would have heard and felt what resurrection does in us and to us and for us – they would have felt it in their hearts and not only heard it in their minds - and the Lord would have just ripped it apart for them to eat of there and then – They would have partaken of Christ at that moment, so the theory of it would have then proceeded the experience of it –and not preceded it - the revelation of it would have reached a hidden depth of which the pathway had already been carved out by the Lord – it was there already in its prepared state to partake of if they had not moved into the assumption that a woman, who was so absorbed with things of the heart could only say that which is of a wistful nature, and could never speak any words of substance or power –
The Lord tested them and they did not see the eternal treasure which rested in the things of the heart - for out of the heart of God did his word come – and out of the heart of the Father did our Jesus come ~
Mary knew of the things of the heart ~ and that is why the Father chose her to share and partake of his Son’s life - for he moved her to a place where no one else would tread ~ he moved her into places of increased pain and constant rejection and dismissal - and she moved there just as if she was dancing to the music of his opera – it was irrelevant to her for her heart and her life was with the Lord - and to love where God moves you to is to love where God is - and Mary moved with the grace of one who trusted what God had placed in her heart – who trusted God with what he was doing in her heart – maybe not understanding all of it, but trusting in the pain and the joy and where it was to take her –
It is trusting God with your love even though it may seem that the pain is unbearable – for what is unbearable is to be without the Lord – to not be where he is – and to not hear or know where he is going ~
Jesus arose back to life and came out of the tomb – and explored our thinking – he reached into the truth of our hearts and was waiting for what our hearts would produce – the joy was there – the relief that he had not gone was there – but the acceptance of his resurrection was not taken freely from the one from whom it was freely given –
It was not taken from the heart of one who had been given new life – from a heart which had been taken out and handled by God, changed by God, and then replaced – for such was that which was to come out of it – words from a changed heart – and not words only from a shocked mind – it was the love behind it – the heart behind it – which was to be heard – which was to be felt – which was to cut right through them, so they too were prepared to go where no one else would tread – So they too could offer their hearts to the Father and trust him in the pain and in the joy.
For the heart of resurrection – the heart in resurrection is the resurrection – it holds the resurrection – explains – expresses – unfolds – and delivers it.
The heart of God is what raises us – so to leave the heart out of resurrection- to think that the things of the heart have not substance or power is to move resurrection only to our mind, and then all the power has been taken out of it, and all the love which God holds it with has been replaced by our logic - and then it is only us trying to reinvent ourselves and to become a new person out of what has already been put to death on the cross of Jesus Christ – we are trying to bring to life that which we are to allow to die in us – for we have to move into the experience of the pain of its death so we can then live in the joy of the resurrected life of Christ in us ~
For the pain of Mary had been so increased – her love had been so increased – so that the moment it looked as though it had been taken from her – when it seemed as though she was separated from it - the pain of loss was then matched to the same heights as the joy she would feel at its return – it was at its most unbearable measure when she came to the realisation - when she was given the revelation that it would never die, and that it was now alive forever and already moving into its increased measure - within her and within our Lord – within our God – and within his Holy Spirit – for it was to come to the understanding that the limited time she would have had on this earth to enjoy it was now extended into eternity – and it was now in its 30-60-100 fold increase - for there has to be a death so the eternal can come to us – And the pain we feel at the moment of the death of ourselves is to match the love we have for resurrection in us - so they are combined for the exaltation of our Lord Jesus.
For Resurrection is the meeting point of - life – salvation - and renewal –
And it is now that this is to be the journey for us – to have his gospel of the resurrection spoken into us by the one it was given to – to experience it right to the core of our being and to feel the pain of our Lord’s death - the pain of our death – to feel the joy of his resurrection and the joy of our resurrection as the full power of it moves through us to make itself known as the changes in us come into their completeness for the glory of our God and for the honour of his Name.
We look back only to reflect on, and to know and to have understanding of where we are to be now – and we bring it into us and we look ahead and see our full resurrection – we see the full stature of Jesus Christ walking this earth before he returns – for we have listened and heard and have accepted the resurrection from the heart of one who lived it – we have felt it as it was meant to be felt and we have let the Lord rip it open before us, so we can eat of it and partake of it - so what was sung out and preached directly into the heart of the Father and his Son may now come into us so we may be able to be the complete resurrection to the fullness of the stature of Jesus Christ - and so go to meet our Lord at our destined meeting place – for we are the ones who now have arisen and taken our positions in the body of Christ and are no more resting in our tombs where we have denied and refused to be resurrected just as our Lord was resurrected –
It is to be full resurrection – full power – to give full glory and honour to the one who desires it – that we are ones who have taken of his resurrection, and loved the death of ourselves to make way for the return of God in us – to make way for the return of our God to us – the return of Jesus Christ in the flesh to us -
And as the pain of separation comes into its increased measure in us as it was in the Lord when he was separated from the Father - and as we increase in our resurrection as we apply ourselves to our ever increasing resurrected form - and the more we move in it and the more we live in all the folds of it - then does the increase escalate – the increase, the multiplying of our pain of separation combined with the heights of which we are living resurrection which then takes hold of the joy of the Lord in us - not only at the resurrection of Christ in us – in the world – and to the world, but the joy, the very heights of eternal joy as his anticipated return in the flesh rises and rises in us until they are one – the pain and the joy are made one when our Lord and God takes his rightful place in this world and begins his reign for 1000 years.
And when we have Christ first in our life operating in his fullness – resurrected and alive in the power of God – in the power of his love that is when it is possible for us as we come to a place of superb completeness in his love through Jesus Christ to be able to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters – then it is possible by a love that sees and knows its worth and sees and knows it master – and its priceless nature - and its purpose – for to lay down our life for others is resurrection at work in us - alive in us – that is when we are looking ahead into eternity and seeing the joy of all of what our God is – seeing it in the heart of our Father for as we see it in the Father’s heart we hear it in the word of Jesus and we know it in the power of the Holy Spirit –
It is looking ahead while we are also doing what has to be done in the now – looking and doing all that it takes to bring everything into what is the consummate truth of God’s consuming love - for what are we laying down can never die, but we lay it down only to take it up again as it becomes enriched by the true and correct use of it – we take it up again for it is eternal and has to wear and be dressed in the nature of God and be used and be worthy of eternal life - to be worthy to know and be a part of the thicker, denser mixture of our God – for we have to be proved of a worthiness which is in keeping to what path we want our lives to take – for love which is the consummate makeup of God comes from a place where its purposes have so been raised and so far above the love as written about by men – it is from such a height that no wonder when we lose our first love that it is that we fall from such a great height – and to come into the knowing and the workings of that kind of love is to be able to see the results it brings about - it is to see the divine purpose it has, and how it does work all things out for the good of those who love God - to really know that part of God and to live it with him and for him – to see the use of this love - which leads to a life which can be used to bring God what is still lost to him - and through the power of Christ resurrected it is resurrected and made stronger because it has been used for its true and holy purpose – to be laid down to retrieve the lost and then taken back up as did our Lord and that love in us, that life in us is for the same purpose when we are eating of it and living what we are eating with the full knowing if its use in us – for it comes into us to give us resurrected eternal life and if we dare to take it to its next level, and the more - we will see from where not many see from - a very privileged position – a position in our Lord which is to be envied – which is to go for if what our Lord does hold in him is to be so hungered for - but it is to be a matured hunger for what we will be the source of - will be to stand so very close to the Lord – close as in his divinity - you will smell and feel the deep thickness in and of this place - seemingly so elevated above all else - but not prideful elevation - nothing about God is steeped in arrogant pride but all is saturated with his gracious humility – for the whole realm of it is to feel this purposed love - and you feel in this place what seems now so natural to look at and to feel and to know - it is God’s purposes and to see them as against the world - and see them as the all consuming purposes that they are – and the perfection of his perfect will – to see the victory of them – that it can be no other way – for we are lost inside of this – all the world and its self righteousness is swallowed up in it - but in his divine way God brings all into its proper and right ending for all is to be perfect as God is – the rich sense of peace overrides the havoc of the world for it is a love which transcends all things –and when I say rich it is to feel all around you his love of which there is nothing to separate us from it, to understand how neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor things present nor things to come nor powers nor height nor depth nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
For his superb unfettered power canopies everything and is as it is in its forever presence and how it all just fits together as one - every part of him so one - to feel the knowledge that God has just to move with the slightest movement and all would be as he wishes – it is so assuredly peaceful and safe with out any doubts of his full sovereignty – and without any fears of what life holds for us – it is thick with love but not our sort of love – a love that comes from perfect knowledge and understanding and the wisdom to have all things in their right order – the love that exudes out of peace taken to its farthest point of extreme – it is just love without any sin – if we can understand that – love without imperfection – love without any doubts - for in its pure form without sin - without imperfections in any way it is to know our God and to know that God is Love - but to know more about this love, for all the virtues of it written for us to read – love is patient kind and all that is listed for us to know that love is - it is those things but in their pure form - it is like if we put all those things together and did not draw out of his love and separate it into all those different words to describe it – if we put them as one it makes a different holy word, a different more Godly understanding - a different heavier language which is filled with the immaculate and perfect voice of the revelation of God - for to take of each description separately is to not to be drawn into the hugeness of the whole meaning – for perhaps there is no other word to describe it – but is only for us to feel it and feel being inside the safe fortress of him and all of everything good being in its perfect and pure state – and to dwell in the perfection of it is to never leave that feeling – to never forget it or lose the different way we see now all things – to see from the same aspect of God who has complete control – and the goodness of him and his perfection in which he lives and holds all together – for it cannot be any other way but perfect – in love, justice, wrath, righteousness, word resurrection life, everything…..to live in the perfection of God is where we are going – we are living in his perfection now, but our sin and our outlook makes it that we do not appreciate or notice or recognise or know his perfection around us - for within the perfection of him does rage our unholiness and our fragmented nature and our hard unrelenting hearts - but in his masterful way all will be as it should be – for to live in his perfection as one who is now a part of that perfection is what is drawing us – it is what is moving us from the written to the unwritten – from the planned into the unplanned – from one eternity into another – from thoughts to what yet is not even a thought – from what has walls and gates and foundations and roads to that which has no measurements - to that which is beyond all measurements - for it is outside of what is known thoughts - outside of what is written - outside of that which is taken from a plan and has been foreseen and foretold - for to be a part of it is to feel our place in him – to know all that is right and good and the way to bring all back into its order in the peace of Jesus - for it is to be no other way for one such as the Lord - for his being is so in control that his qualities are the outward manifestation of the wonders of him - the outward manifestation of the power of him – the outward manifestation of one who knows and sees the outcome and the answer to every problem and every question - the outward manifestation of a God who is at peace with himself and the righteousness of all his ways -
It is in God’s nature to bring all things forward into the now for all is as it should be when God speaks – his voice is the echoing of the movement of time /space for when there is movement in us – when there is God’s voice spoken into us we have then moved from death to life – from then to now – from the hunger of our flesh to the hunger of our souls - and as our spirit meets with the Holy Spirit and has interchange, the nature of God transcends into us and the spoken word is the written word and the written word is the body of flesh of God and the body of flesh of our God is the vessel which contains the personification of Resurrection – Resurrection taken from the heavenly heights and as it moved closer to and into the realm which was drawing it – it was made living and active and powerful for as it moves in us – as it powers through us – as it takes its place in us to bring all to its uplifted glorified place so God in us, Christ in us, can receive his due honour and so the Holy Spirit in us receives and gives way to the emerging in us of the ones who will walk this earth in the full nature and stature of Jesus Christ - for the Holy Spirit knows when to let us go when it is time to release himself - for Jesus in us – the Holy One in us will have taken his full position …all of which resurrection has taken in the fold of its garment and brought full on into the world will have taken its position~
Resurrection lives because God said live – it brings glory to him for it upholds all which God gave life to – it will never cease its pursuit of God’s completeness unless God himself demands it – declares it – speaks it – and ordains it to cease its work in us – but it is of an eternal work to be of the of the Resurrection – to be like the form of Jesus Christ – the form of true life as it was spoken - and to know him as Christ Jesus – to have the attitude as the same as Christ Jesus the exalted one who emptied himself taking the form of a bond servant and being made in the likeness of men – and being found in appearance as man he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death even death on a cross -
And it is to know him as Jesus Christ the despised and rejected one who went on to be glorified - for God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name – that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.
To know Christ Jesus and to know Jesus Christ is to know where we are going – it is to take our lives and to not just see resurrection as separate and as something Jesus did - it is letting the Holy Spirit take control of our lives and to see Resurrection as someone Jesus is – it is taking the resurrected Christ - the person into our opened cleansed hearts – for he then can take all things in us, and as they now meet with him and touch him and are spoken to by his word and are washed in his blood – we can see the fullness of the action and the fullness of the person and then resurrection is imminent - life in the full is imminent – if we love resurrection and if we love life and want to live them both – then now does begin our eternal life as we come to know the resurrection and the life it holds – the life that extends and extends and extends – the life that is the extension of the life of our Lord - for he came to us and then left the earth in the flesh and we are the extension of the life in this flesh until we are receiving of our glorified bodies – for we are still of flesh and blood – but of a flesh which is changed by his visitation - changed by his body of flesh being crucified and then being raised to life again - we are changed by the washing of his blood of eternal forgiveness – and we are to continue and do the things he did and the greater things – we are the extension of his visit and are to remain so, until he returns to meet up with us again and for us then to continue our work with him together in our new glorified bodies –
If we do not let God raise us up like he did Jesus – if we do not let God roll away our heart of stone which holds fears, disbelief and doubt, then we have taken the heart out of resurrection – we have taken the love out of resurrection and have made only a verbal acceptance of Jesus Christ to move into our lives – salvation has its entry point – repentance and belief in Jesus Christ – but if the entry point is so beautiful what does it lead to.. If the entry point is Jesus Christ – God’s only beloved Son, where does he indeed intend to take us from there…
There is no answer to express it all – there is no book which says it all – there is no song on this earth which sings it all – but our God knows it all – but has yet to move into it all, and to live it all -
And to live it all with him we have to have a love which sets our Lord apart – and a heart which states our love for him and him alone – we have to trust him with our love, with our life, with our resurrection, and with our eternity – we have to move where he takes us, and our movement and our heart is to be like we are dancing to his beautiful opera – for then he can take us anywhere and everywhere for we have learned to live in God and to love in God – we have learned how to draw out strength from unbearable pain and how to merge it with unsurpassed joy – we have learned how to communicate with our Lord in his language - in his words of truth – it is to want to live his life with him – by living our life in his ways - and with his thoughts and with his heart – to hunger to have a life which comes from having a God nature – Godly qualities – a mind and heart which is centred on unity and ongoing life in abundance - which is to take us into an eternity which is what we are determined to make it – this is the partaking of the resurrection with him ~ sharing it with him and living it for him ~
It is to be sharing our mortal life with him and being the expression of the Father’s will while on this earth ~ and moving through his purposed plans with hearts knowing the outcome – with hearts knowing Jesus Christ - and then to be in perfect alignment with him so as to meet him when he returns - and then to move into our roles of reigning with him, for we have remained on this earth in the full stream of his eternal purpose –
It is to know why we have to be focused to a point of steadfastness that is again to the extreme - for that is what makes us able to move in the Father’s will and to be ready when his Son returns - and from there we have the privilege and the reward which does come from a completely faithful, and excessively steadfast and focused mind and heart which is still living in the realm of mortality –
For then we are able to go into the eternities with our God and in our God - for we are able to live with God in this extraordinary way - this new way - because we knew him when we were mortal – we knew him and his ways and his plans when we walked our walk of faith in the flesh – we knew his heart and what it held, and we heard his voice when called us to come into unknown places and we followed with a heart not heavy but a heart full of joyful song -
And as the Holy Spirit taught us and kept us always within the stream of God’s perfect will, and within the stream of the power of his love, we came to be the true extension of the visitation of Jesus – the extension of the life Jesus gave us as we continued our walk in the flesh – the walk which Jesus began and the walk he handed over to us – so we could bring it into its fullness as the increase of the ways of God became a part of us - as the increase in our resurrected form became a part of our Father’s heart ~
For how heavy is a heart which is yet to know resurrection is for now –
How heavy is a heart which does not feel the Lord of Life or know the kingdom of his heart ~
How heavy is this weight which is what we carry when we refuse resurrection- When we refuse to love Resurrection –
When we refuse the infilling of the resurrected Christ ~
And how heavy is the heart of our Father when the eternity of the Resurrection is still concealed for the curtain of its revelation is waiting to be torn in two by one or ones who have fully and completely come into the divine and purposed will of the Father, and stand now at the entrance point of what our God holds in his heart to come into its existence the moment – the very second – that his Son is formed in his completeness in one or ones who have remained faithful and steadfast and obedient - and have come to know him and love him and listen to him and follow him when they were still living in the mortal world – when they had to die to themselves so they could come and follow he who knew the way - he who was the way - and as they followed they moved into his living presence and each step taken out of a grateful and humble heart was as step into the full life which God has always been leading us into –
It is the truth of our walk into his majesty – a truth of where our excessive humble obedient submissiveness is destined to take us - where our focused and excess steadfastness will take us - for it all is for us to find out for ourselves – all is for us to explore ourselves – all is for us to have, that is why we are given resurrection - why we are given a resurrected life in Christ – why we have been given a Lord with whom we can eat with, and a Lord of whom we can eat of.
For our full Resurrection into the fullness of eternal life is what the Father gave his Son to us for – he gave us the Resurrection and the Life so we could have the Life of the Resurrection – the life of the Resurrected One ~ The eternity of the Resurrection which is held apart and holds in it all which is yet to come through Jesus Christ – for it is the eternity of the one who is – and of the ones who are living full life of Resurrection according to the divine and purposed will of the Father ~
It is Jesus Christ and Christ Jesus who we want to know – Father
It is the Resurrection and the Resurrected One who we want to be just like to the glory and honour of our Father who has so purposed for our lives to be to the fullness of Jesus Christ –
The Anointed One – The Holy One – the Only One
So we thank you Father for giving us an abundance of opportunities and an abundance of revelations and an abundance of your love
We thank you for taking us to the cross of your Son and showing us how to die to ourselves and how to live for Jesus – and how to be ones who can meet him at our destined meeting place and reign with him for 1000 years.
For Father through the teachings and superb guidance of your Holy Spirit, do we desire to be ones who move to the place where we can reach out with the hands of Christ and tear in two the curtain which still seals in your heart that which is the eternity of the Resurrection ~ and we desire and have in our hearts to move into it as you move us into our eternity with you, and to see what is the glorious unfolding of what was in your heart but what was still going to be new and exciting for you as you walked into it with those who fully attained to all which you had purposed for them – the full resurrection of sons and daughters who were not afraid to go into where we were called, for we knew wherever we went ~ wherever we followed you –
That it would be stepping into the heart of God and what he had, and has ordained to come to pass for the sole purpose of the glorification of his Son - so that Jesus is now and for all eternity exalted and praised and honoured-
And that is what we want to be a part of Father – that is what we want –
That is what we want for our Lord Jesus Christ whose name is above all other names –
That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.
AMEN-AMEN-AMEN
