6657	Forums / Theology Forum / Re: Romans and the Flesh Monster.	on: February 15, 2008, 08:02:30 PM
All of us want to be so filled with the Spirit so that we rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. We would want to know the Spirit in such a way that we could have a sense of His dwelling in us by a peace that passes all understanding. In this kind of fellowship we are aware of our need to be so dependent on God, so that we long for Him through His word, and in that longing we close with Him in the answer even if it takes yrs. But we cannot have this kind of peace and joy without dependence. So that we are taught to depend upon Him as we hope in His unfailing love. For His love overshadows His justice, and His discipline. Because He treats us as a child coming to His Father for full pardon and acceptance. Thats why when we have a choice to be punished by our heavenly Father , or earthly authority, we would always choose Gods discipline. Because He disciplines us in His mercy, not repaying us for what we deserve.  Our Father gives us the grace to overcome our falls, by being present with us in the trial, and upholding us so that we are able to overcome. Why would we think that He would treat us as a sinful father? First God as our Father is always open for us to come to Him. He looks for those who seek Him. He looks for the contrite heart, who isn t afraid to trust Him with all of their sins, the ones that are hard to give up, the ones that are given up for the wrong reasons, and the sins that we keep going back to. Since we stand as completely forgiven before we ask Him for forgiveness, we stand as completely able in Him to be a peace after we sin. And even tho we want to beat ourselves about our sins, yet the  Father does not deal with us through the path of self examination. But He deals with us in spite of our corruption and rebellion.  There is no reason why God should not bless us with all of the spiritual blessing in the heaven lies. And if He should choose to bless us with riches, then we are more to praise Him. But we only have to ask Him. He has chosen to bless us through our communication to Him. He wants to pour out His blessing and Spirit on us, being filled with the knowledge of His love through the Spirit. And we only need to open all of our problems to Him in prayer, pouring our hearts out to Him. Telling Him of all of the problems and sins that we are troubled about. He wants to hear all of our troubles. He is delighted to have us dump our burdens to Him in this way, and even tho we never really give all of our troubles, yet we can have such a measure of His divine forgiveness and refuge that we gain a different view of those burdens and how we sense them being lightened. Its not our job to worry in this way. It is Gods infinite love that we are to be delighting in, it is His faithfulness that we are to be eying so that we wait for Him as a watchman waits for the morning.