The Fellowship and Relationship of Faith written by Michael McBane Most if asked to consider the application of Abraham going out with no destination might shrink back into an explanation that accommodates their comfort zone. I think that is folly and great opportunities to grow in the dynamics of a pioneering walk of faith could be missed. The reality of Christianity is we daily step into Christ and He becomes the author and finisher of our faith. There is great comfort in this resolution and it must be accompanied by determination but blanketed in the rest of Christ. A life filled with the divine tensions of being formed into the image of Christ. Self fulfilled determination does not allow for the constitution of the Kingdoms purpose or economy. It lacks agape and usually seeks a return that fulfills selfish ambition. Faith has always brought certain challenges to the priorities of living. God is not a wreaking ball but the walk of follow me is uncommon in Christianity. Is it because it is not understood or has it been extracted from the equation of the Christian life? There are usually core elements of living in the dynamics of faith that may take different external characteristics but they will remain true to the principals of how God will build our steps of faith. These are the things I want to write about today. There are things that we should pay attention to as we step into the dynamics of the change of new seasons. One is the continual substance of what and how God has spoken to us as individuals. Meaning we must pay attention to the historic seeds of purpose that God planted in us through our life. More then likely they paint a picture that speaks. These will be the things or components that allow us to see in faith concerning how we are being lead forward by the Holy Spirit. The duration of our journey in God strains the characteristics that we have adopted outside of Christ so that the true destiny of God’s intention can bear abundant fruit. The conclusion is that God is glorified or as is said, God is most glorified when we are most satisfied in Him. I love this insight from Graham Cooke, In this new territory that is our future unfolding, we are not going to know the line of our boundaries, and this is intentional by God. Hebrews 11:8 defines this whole place that God wants to put us in. It says this, “Abraham by faith, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance, and he went out not knowing where he was going.” In other words, he walked off his map. How do you walk out to a place that is your inheritance when you don’t know where you are going? How does that work? KEY: If God is not giving you directions, how do you get there? You get there by fellowship. You get there in relationship with Him. Cooke reveals two dynamics that from my perspective function as inseparable. Fellowship together with those who God places in our life and the primary that makes that work fruitfully, our relationship to Christ. Often the identity of our inheritance as it concerns the Kingdom is the treasure we discovered within us. Yes it is the mystery of Christ in us but this percolates the seeds of God’s intentional purpose in our particular life. We will discover the identity of what God is doing and saying by allowing what He has placed in us as that conforms to Godly purpose to emerge in each step we take. We might often hear that we have not been where God is taking us.There are contributing factors to this thought. They are the dynamics of the world changing before us. There is absent from life the attributes of Godly restraint. We as Christians are being asked to do life differently. For most that is not only challenging it is forbidding. We must be ambassadors in everything. We can not separate life into categories. We cannot fragment the segments of how we live. It is all or nothing. So we are brought back to the keys of discovering what we have not known as we should. In fellowship and relationship the Kingdom of God will be at hand. If we remain faithful to the love found here. And clearly the greatest residue that should be traced then is love. Love for God which forms how we hear, how we listen and speak or be silent but our actions our not worthy of life if they do not rest on this dynamic. In Christ we as a community of fellowship are called to be the providers of life, first in offering Jesus fully to the world because we have and are with Him and then to allow the cascading provisions of the concerns of life to flow out of the dynamics cultivated therein. For those who know me or who have read much of what I write you know I have been purposed in certain things. My primary is Christ and how life adapts to Him. I usually reject life when it speaks of Christ by expecting Him to adapt to the ways that have been rooted in habit and religious pattern. I strongly feel that God desires to reveal relational integrity to the world through a functioning walk of faith that is characterized by fellowship and how that flows out of our relationship to Christ.There is a great treasure in the diversity that God has set among us. Let us remember we conform to Christ not to each other but we must not forget that love serves.
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 04:59:47 +0000
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