© 20 Colin Melbourne
Is Every Day
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Rom. 8:12-15 KJV
As we walk in the Spirit we begin to know God intimately as a loving, tender-hearted Father, devoid of religion and formality, overflowing with grace, patience, and love.
Charles Finney 1792-1875
Some Christians have portrayed God as stern and forbidding, almost eager to condemn sinners, and this sense comes across reading the sermons of certain preachers.
American Presbyterian, Charles Finney, was particularly dour and serious. His ministry appeared successful superficially, but ultimately bore little fruit, and his judgmental doctrines have hobbled and scarred generations of Americans to this day.
Jonathan Edwards roused a nation with his deliberately provocative sermon entiltled, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
It was common for hearers of Methodist-Calvinist, George Whitefield, to scream and faint from fearful emotion whilst listening to him preach.
George Whitefield 1714-1770
So much so, that the open-air evangelist would call people to come down from vantage points in trees, because he knew the Spirit of God would fall as he spoke. Whitefield didn’t want them breaking their necks as they tumbled from their perches in distress of soul.
Fear God, and keep his commandments
If you are still in your sins, and do not yet have the witness of God’s Spirit in your innermost being, then I recommend you turn wholeheartedly to the Living Christ, as you discover why every sinner ought to fear Judgment.
Godly Fear
But oh what a contrast once you have become a child of God, a Blood-washed saint walking in the love of the King of kings, you fear God righteously, not wrongly.
You come to know Him as Abba, Father, and spend each moment of every day in His loving Presence, conscious of His leading, and protection.
Every Day becomes Father’s Day!
Your spirit resonates to the fact that you have been redeemed, purchased by the sinless Blood of God manifest in The Flesh, and you allow no cloud of sin to come between you.
If we do err, He gently makes us conscious we’ve missed the mark, bringing sincere repentance, we confess it to Him, and it is gone forever.
Stand in awe, and sin not
But, hide it, cover it, allow it to fester, and we become deaf to the things of God, careless about sin and its consequences, and deeper in bondage to the flesh.
We each have feet of clay, and Father knows our human weakness, so has made provision by pouring forth the same Holy Spirit who empowered Jesus of Nazareth.
What a privilege to know the sweet fellowship of Father’s Spirit deep in our hearts throughout the day.
In our temporal realm, there’s a special bond between father and son that is different from the rapport between mothers and their progeny: Not closer, just different.
Dads are busy away at work, so the time children spend with Daddy becomes more precious as the memories fade over the years.
How much more so in the spiritual realm.
Time spent with your Heavenly Father is Beyond Price
This is the reason the shepherd-boy David developed a New Covenant-like relationship with God.
David was a sinner, subject to the Jewish Law, yet; read his Psalms, and it is easy to forget they were penned under the Covenant that brings death (2 Cor. 3:7).
David had a closer walk with God than many New Covenant believers experience today, and that is a tragic omission on their part.
David was not born again, he was a sinner-man unto his death. Only after Christ came and sealed the New Covenant of Grace, with His Blood, could David be born of God. He was perhaps one of the resurrected saints mentioned in Mtt. 27:50-53 KJV;
Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
If we take time to attend to the Holy Ghost in our hearts, even as we are about our daily routine, and obey His promptings, we develop in leaps and bounds.
It is more than routine prayer, it is genuine spiritual fellowship, heart to heart with Father.
That is your Heavenly Father teaching you, just as He taught His Only Begotten Son.
Would you like that?
Father would.
© 20 Colin Melbourne
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