Spiritual Desire

I am not interested in creating a blog where doctrine is impersonal. Every truth in life has a natural determination in its working on our hearts. First, we can only do according to our understanding of a particular action. And even though we are rational thinking beings and we do not always do what we know and understand is right. Yet as having a will that has a cause from desire, we follow our desires to either do the moral right or the wrong. The standard of being able is not from our resistance or our determination. The standard is our loving Him with all of our hearts and minds and wills. If we think we can accomplish anything by our resistance to the wrong, then we will be ignoring our thinking of the standard of loving Him as God. All of our lives essentially are coming before a perfectly holy God and living in the light of His will.

What is essential to our understanding of Him will determine our understanding of who we are, and what we are, as sinners with one another. Every action comes from a power that is either seen or unseen. We love Him with a power of desire that becomes our action before we actually use the means to obtain our view of our willing to work by those means, i.e. scripture work, prayer or the local church. We are being acted upon since we are fully passive in our being saved by faith and not by works, and we are fully active from the internal thought of desire. This is why we not only are saved by grace but we are enabled to do good in all of our lives by grace.
Faith is the means by which we know Him and are growing in our knowing Him more. So that in His light we see light. If we know Him, we know that we cannot do one thing without Him. Our life is living in Him by being connected to Him as a vine to the branches. We draw our life from Him in the flow of the engrafted word to our souls. Without faith it is impossible to please Him, because in believing we see how distressed we are, and how simple grace is in receiving life by Him. So we see that doing anything good comes from the nature of our relationship to Him, and our understanding of His nature in enabling us to will that which is good.