The high mark of our race is not to be like Christ but to be conformed into His image. The Father wants nothing more than to see His Son when He looks upon us. He was so delighted in His Son that this is His joy, to have relationship with broken man and conform them into His first begotten Son. As we study scripture we can see how Christ lived His life and I believe as He being the model for our lives, we are to pursue the relationship with our Father in the same vain that He did. At a young age Christ told His mother Mary that he was about His Father's business as he sat in the temple learning scriptures and asking questions. Let's look at these scriptures:
Matthew 11:26-28
26 Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.
27 “All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
When we see these scriptures, we now understand that as we come to Christ the Father accepts us into an eternal relationship. The more we study the Word of God which essentially from cover to cover reveals the majesty of His Son Jesus Christ, the more the Son Jesus Christ allows His Father to be revealed to us. The Father delights in us being conformed to His Son and the Son delights in revealing the Father to those who have accepted Him. Matthew 11:28 once again states that all those who are weary and burdened to come to the Son and He will give us REST!!! Imagine sitting in a place where at one end of the table the Father delights as He looks upon you reading His Word and being rooted in His Son through the work of the Holy Spirit, and on the other end of the table the Son is delighting in revealing the one and true Living God to you. That sounds like an indescribable place of peace, joy, and Rest!!! Be Encouraged!!! Have a wonderful life of Spiritual Rest on purpose!!!!!
Jeremiah 17
5 Thus says the LORD:
“ Cursed is the man who trusts in man
And makes flesh his strength,
Whose heart departs from the LORD.
6 For he shall be like a shrub in the desert,
And shall not see when good comes,
But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness,
In a salt land which is not inhabited.
7 “ Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD,
And whose hope is the LORD.
8 For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters,
Which spreads out its roots by the river,
And will not fear[b] when heat comes;
But its leaf will be green,
And will not be anxious in the year of drought,
Nor will cease from yielding fruit.
9 “ The heart is deceitful above all things,
And desperately wicked;
Who can know it?
10 I, the LORD, search the heart,
I test the mind,
Even to give every man according to his ways,
According to the fruit of his doings.
11 “ As a partridge that broods but does not hatch,
So is he who gets riches, but not by right;
It will leave him in the midst of his days,
And at his end he will be a fool.”
12 A glorious high throne from the beginning
Is the place of our sanctuary.
13 O LORD, the hope of Israel,
All who forsake You shall be ashamed.
“ Those who depart from Me
Shall be written in the earth,
Because they have forsaken the LORD,
The fountain of living waters.”
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