Start to finish begin at the end
The flight of Christians this year
Beloved of GOD,
If one thousand years with the LORD is but one day before Him*…
Then what is one soul like?
A thimble of life. Filled with a silver thread of light?
So consider.
Would you be able to work you out if you even had one thousand years to do it?
For each day the sublime fabric of our earthy carriage is worked out here.
Yet its weave is patterned by a golden cloth above.
Therefore have you noticed pairs are everywhere?
Front and back.
Dark and light.
Start to finish.
And course the biggest pair in all human history…
The Old Nature.
The New Nature.
Which more precisely, is your human history.
Hence.
As we are almost halfway through this vital year...
Which nature is ahead in your life now?
For you know well…
The natures (in you) must either be set to work or laid to rest.
Putting off.
Putting on.
“Put off your old nature which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful lusts.”
Ephesians 4:22 RSV
In short…
Knowing how to put off the old nature and put on the new one is the essential foundation of a disciples daily (rubber meets the road) liberty.
Without knowing this in daily living experience… there is no liberty. Neither will you be able to conquer any demonic opposition either.
Both natures are eternal carriages.
One down to dust.
The second a divine chariot to the stars.
Because simply…
One nature is broken.
One is not. It is UNBREAKABLE.
Therefore if you really wish to aim for the stars overcomer…
Why get into a broken carriage at the start of a day?
God forbid.
Instead,
Put on the new nature…
This ‘Jesus’ nature does not sin.
Because…
It is printed EXACTLY like the nature of the Son of GOD who shed His blood to make it so.
Imagine having a nature like that actually inside you.
Well…
God gifted this very thing to you.
See for yourself.
“Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.”
1 John 3:9 NKJV
Start as you mean to go the rest of the year saint.
Put the old nature in the grave.
While you fly higher and higher in glory…
In the new.
Jesus is coming back fast.
Make sure you are still ‘more than a conqueror’ when He does.
“Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”
Matthew 24:44 ESV
Stay frosty saint.
Bless you,
Dave.
PS The power of these eternal truths only increase with each passing day…
“For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be rendered powerless so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin,
Since a person who has died is freed from sin.”
Romans 6:6 CSB
“Little children, don’t let anyone deceive you.
The person who practices righteousness is righteous, just as the Messiah is righteous.
The person who practices sin belongs to the evil one, because the Devil has been sinning from the beginning.
The reason that the Son of God was revealed was to destroy what the Devil has been doing.
No one who has been born from God practices sin, because God’s seed abides in him. Indeed, he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born from God.
This is how God’s children and the Devil’s children are distinguished.
No person who fails to practice righteousness and to love his brother is from God.”
1 John 3:7-10 ISV
“Remember him—before the silver cord is severed,
and the golden bowl is broken;
before the pitcher is shattered at the spring,
and the wheel broken at the well,
and the dust returns to the ground it came from,
and the spirit returns to God who gave it.”
Ecclesiastes 12:6-7 NIV
*2 Peter 3:8