Fellowship in His Presence
““…I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing [intimately] Messiah Yahshua (Jesus) my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Messiah””
May you be blessed by Yahshua’s (Jesus’s) incomparable and infinite love that He has for you. He desires that you draw near. He does not want you at a distance. Those who believe in His Son have been redeemed with His imperishable atoning blood to draw near to Him. Your fellowship with Yahveh (the LORD) is the greatest gift that His Son purchased when He died at Calvary. How few long to take advantage of this unspeakable gift, this beyond compare inheritance, to leave this world behind, and to come into the Presence of the Most High King of Glory. There, Yahveh will change you as you abide in His Presence and He abides with you. He will do it. By His love He will motivate you to move forward and all the temporal things that you will leave behind will seem as nothing. As Paul says, “…I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing [intimately] Messiah Yahshua (Jesus) my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Messiah.” (Philippians 3:8) Not only will you call things a loss, you will consider them to be like garbage, to be cast into the trash heap. Once they were important to you, now they are refuse. They will no longer be considered or esteemed because you want to be like Yahshua (Jesus) and have His interests become your interests. Messiah will propel you to bear more and more of His identity as you go forth bringing His love and words from a heart that beats with a palpitation of pure compassion and love for the lost.
What is motivating you, dear one? Yahveh God is looking at your heart. He says through Jeremiah, “The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; who can understand it?” (Jeremiah 17:9). But King David cried out, “Search me, O Yahveh, and know my heart; try me and know my anxious thoughts; and see if there be any hurtful way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.” (Psalm 139:23-24) King David cried out because he wanted his inheritance of coming into the Almighty’s Presence not to be denied because of sin that would keep him at a distance.
How many of us really want our unfathomable inheritance? Or how many of us, like Esau, have sold out cheaply for “a bowl of lentil stew,” (Genesis 25:34) for something of this world, because the thought of our inheritance seems nothing to us, compared to satisfying the cheap desires of our carnal perishing flesh?
