Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
Revelation 22:1, “And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.”
The Lord is working in our lives to make Himself our source.
Why are we passing through all kinds of experiences and various environments?
They are designed by God to bring us into Himself as our source.
So what we are going through right now is another step toward the goal of working a realization into our consciousness that our life is God Himself.
When God reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, He produced a relationship that makes Him, not ourselves, the source of our lives.
This entire universe is destined to be consummated in God as the source of all things.
The pure river of water of life is “proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.”
As God’s eternal habitation, the holy city, New Jerusalem, is fully supplied with God as the source.
The river of water of life proceeds out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
The source of supply is the Triune God flowing out and watering every part of the city.
This vision of the consummation of all God’s work in eternity future unveils Him as the unique source of the universe.
To be redeemed and regenerated is to be ushered into the realm of the new creation, where God begins a process in which experientially the old things start to pass out of our lives.
The old things are related to our self as our point of reference.
We lived out of our own impulses, our own choices, our own thoughts.
But now we begin to live by revelation, that is, by what God has revealed to us in His Word.
It is when we live by revelation that God becomes our source.
He reveals to us the purpose of our human life.
We no longer take man’s views and concepts as the basis of our human existence.
Revelation unveils to us God’s eternal purpose.
This revelation causes us to be persons who are living to be conformed to the image of God’s Son.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
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