Just Be - God Says

Just Be God Says

By the work of Jesus on the cross God calls us to “be”, the most important of which is to be true sons and daughters to God Himself.  This was the finished work of the Christ to reconcile us to Father.

We are not to do anything except love and share love with Him who first loved us.  The great I Am wants us to be related to Him personally.  This is the mystery of God that regardless of who we are or what we have done, even where we are in life He desires us to be in fellowship with Him.

Nothing we can do or offer can improve the way that He sees us.  Even the ones who stand against God are still loved with the same love as the “defenders of the faith”.  The difference between these two groups is that it only takes one turn to change from an “enemy of God” to a “child of God”.

But can I anticipate some issues here?  First the world we know is in a mess with the people living for the most part being closer to Hell than Heaven.  Yes it is true the world we inhabit is in a mess but that is down to us not God.  God created the world and stocked it with every good thing and declared it to be “very good”.  Since then we have treated it to all sort of trauma and that is why it is a mess.

Next point, it is obvious that all have not turned back to Father aren’t we to do something about this?  The answer to this is that yes we are to do something.  We are to be His representatives to the others.  Jesus told the twelve that they were a lot of things lights for the world, salt that give life flavour, and so on. In each instance the “be/are” that He talked about was for the benefit of others. Light is only useful if it draws someone or illumines the way for them.  Essentially what Jesus was saying was that we should live openly so that we may draw others and point them to the True Light of the World.

In His last words to the twelve, as written in Mathew’s Good News Jesus is recorded as giving what we now call the “Mission Mandate”.  Go into the world, make disciples, teach them what I have taught you, and baptize them into fellowship was what He told them.  Ever since we Christians have given up all sort of comforts so that the Gospel may be spread right throughout the world.

The mandate is a major part of Father’s plan, and in the missionary enterprise it is probably more important to “Be” than in the comfort of a home Church environment. This is because all you have to support you is praying people a long way away, your faith and God’s Word that where we are so is He.

The Missionary mandate is partnered an equally important element which is “World Evangelisation”.  God doesn’t have grand children; He doesn’t even have second cousins.  We are each, individually, Children of Father.  This is where being is the essential characteristic of the believer, we cannot bring about change in another, that is God’s territory we are to be the evidence that gives our friends the capacity to find the truth in Jesus and thus turn to Him.

Paul in Athens had this to say of God’s plan to the people at the Areopagus.

²⁷God has done all this, so that we will look for him and reach out and find him. He isn't far from any of us, ²⁸and he gives us the power to live, to move, and to be who we are. "We are his children," just as some of your poets have said.²⁹Since we are God's children, we must not think that he is like an idol made out of gold or silver or stone. He isn't like anything that humans have thought up and made. Acts 17:27-29 (CEV)