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Greetings,
Leaders lead others in the path of embracing the good news of God in Christ. What is that good news? The good news is that God has made a way for us to be a dwelling place of His Spirit for His glory in our world. This is not just for His blessing presence, but for His purpose in all things. We have been created in Christ for good works that we should walk in them for God’s glory in our lives. God’s purpose in our lives won’t give us God’s presence, but finding God’s presence will empower us to know His purpose. Gods sees the end from our beginning, and we are predestined in Christ for His good works that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
This good news of being a dwelling place of God by His Spirit is for those who had the covenant of the Law and for those who were destined to be a part of the covenant through the faith of Abraham. This means that the good news is for all people. As leaders we lead others to be a part of God’s eternal plan as being a dwelling place of God in all that we are and do in life.
Ephesians 2:19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, 22 in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
God’s presence resting in our lives is essential for our blessing and our purpose. When God created Adam, He formed Him from the dust of the earth and then breathed in him His breath of life. We must remember where we were and would be without God in our lives. Our lives without God are lives of barrenness. We end up looking for our needs to be met from a dry and barren despairing place in our hearts. When we first experienced God, He breaths into us the breath of life. His Spirit comes into our spirit.
Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. 8 The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.
By no means was the earth a paradise in the original creation. This was also true in our beginning place of knowing God, and it is still true in the place outside of our direct connection with God in our hearts. In the beginning, there was a place among the dust of the field where God planted a garden. It was there that He put the man He had formed from the dust. It was in a place called Eden. Eden means desirable place. It is a place of life-giving desire. It is a place of knowing God’s presence in our lives. It is a place of being loved by Him.
In the garden man was to have a relationship with God where he could be sent forth in a life of being fruitful, multiplying, filling, subduing, and having dominion. In the garden man experienced an administration of God’s influence where he could eat of all good things and of the tree of life for eternity, but man chose a tree of information instead of intimacy. He chose the tree of the knowledge of good and the knowledge of evil. He chose independence, rather than a dependency upon God in all things.
We need life, more than we need knowledge. We need one another more than we need the power to judge one another. We need to be people of mercy and grace for a destiny of giving mercy and reigning by grace in all things. We need to stay close in our relationship with God by His Holy Spirit. Leaders lead others is saying close to God by His Holy Spirit in all things and all times. This empowers our knowing of God’s love and our ability to give His love to our world.
Food For Thought,
Ted J. Hanson
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