Tag: Who are you

I Love Who I Am in Jesus

God dropped this understanding into my mind and it blessed my heart. I am asking Him to help me convey it to you. “I Love Who I Am in Jesus” has a dual meaning when this thought came to me. I see with an understanding of who I use to be before accepting Jesus in my life. I see with understanding other people in the news and in the local community of not having Jesus in their life. The evil and darkness that was in me, in the news, and those in our community pushed me to the place where God dropped the wonderful understanding “I Love Who I Am in Jesus“.

“I Love Who I Am in Jesus” is not a statement of perfect completion because I am always on a daily basis growing and changing the necessary things towards that goal, which I believe only the true perfection comes after this life. “I Love Who I Am in Jesus” is a statement of a present day status. The dual side to this statement is “I do not love who I was outside of Jesus“.

All of mankind is born outside of Jesus with a fleshly nature that has the potential and susceptibleness to doing things that are evil. Rom. 3:23 “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God“. This is what God says our flesh is capable of doing to ourselves and others. Read over these and check off the ones in your mind that leaps out to you and to those you see in the news along with those in your community.

Gal. 5:19 “The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;” v20 “idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,” v21 “and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like…” (BSB translation) Don’t worry about the words you do not understand, but for now the ones you do understand. You can research the meaning of others whenever you want.

There is another list of things of our flesh God tells us that will exist in what He calls the last days before Jesus returns to the earth. This prediction of the last days is pointing out those outside of Jesus that will cause terrible and horrible times for themselves and all of mankind. It will be worth reading over these checking the boxes that reminds you of yourself and those you see in the news and in the community. It really reveals the truth of why “I do not love who I was outside of Jesus“. I hope you see the same for yourself.

2 Tim. 3:1 “But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.” v2 “People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,” v3 “without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,” v4 “treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God-” v5 “having a form of godliness but denying its power…“

After reading all of these things of the flesh and you see our news today, I believe you will see we are in the last days and why I appreciate loving the what I am presently am in Jesus and not what I was outside of Jesus. It is possible if you did not see any of these things pertaining to your flesh that you are in the group of people that the evil god of this world has blinded the minds with darkness to those who do not believe and not seeing the light of the one true God and Jesus Christ. 2 Corinthians 4:4 I was once there.

From the list of the last days fleshly actions and thoughts 2 Tim. 3:6 “They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires,” How many woman of all ages do we see in the news and the community doing and saying crazy things outside of the scope of common sense in the streets, in the schools, on the internet, and from professional services? It is not just woman, but also males being lead of those you read about the flesh being the leader of their thoughts and actions.

One of the reasons I say, “I Love Who I Am in Jesus” is because if I were still outside of Jesus I would be totally at the mercy of the deception and lies of the evil god of this world along with my selfish flesh. This would be putting me in a place of 2 Tim. 3:7 “always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth“, which the frustration and stress would invoke the state of violence and killing because the inability to see and accept words of truth.

Our flesh and the god of this world puts us in a state of not believing in God and Jn. 12:40 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so they can neither see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, nor turn—and I would heal them.” It is our free will choice to give God a chance in our life. “I Love Who I Am in Jesus” because I gave God that chance to be in my life and share each day with me.

The other reason I say, “I Love Who I Am in Jesus” is because seeing the truth of salvation found only in Jesus, being baptized in Jesus name washing away all of my evil sins and receiving his Holy Spirit as he gave me the words to speak as a sign he had moved inside my body with my spirit to save from this world and my flesh. Not everyone sees this revelation of the original plan of salvation. The plan of salvation Peter preached has been changed by so many Christian claiming religions. I feel this is a dangerous thing and Apostle Paul warns people about this in Gal. 1:8.

I can say in full assurance in this present day my status in the plan of salvation with God and His word lines up in oneness completely with Acts 2:38 “Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” v39 “The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off – for all whom the Lord our God will call.” There is no scripture that says this plan of salvation stopped, changed, or is not longer necessary.

“I Love Who I Am in Jesus” because I know Jesus gave the keys to the kingdom of heaven with the God given power to bind and loose to Peter to preach salvation in Acts 2:38 and not to Matthew to contradict Peter with Mtt. 28:19. Most Christian religions follow Matthew over Peter. What did Jesus have Matthew to write down about Peter? And did he contradict Peter?

Matthew recorded Jesus telling Peter, Mtt. 16:19 “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” Matthew did NOT contradict Peter saying in Mtt. 28:19 “… baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,” Jesus is the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Jesus came to us in the name of Father (Jn. 5:43 I have come in My Father’s name…), obviously he is the name of the son (Mtt. 1:21 “…thou shalt call his name Jesus…“), and the Holy Spirit is sent to us in Jesus name (Jn. 14:26 “…the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name…“).

Not all Christians or the world knows and accepts this truth. Matthew is simply pointing the three different stages God has come to us in what Peter said in Acts 2:38 as the Father of creation, the son of redemption, and the Holy Spirit of regeneration are all in Jesus name. Col. 2:9 “For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.” Some Christian religions believe in a trinity of God and worry about offending their belief a trinity. There was no battle of the trinity and the oneness of God with Peter. Peter did not believe in the trinity of God nor did he worry about offending by baptizing in Jesus name.

After obeying God’s word and receiving the gift of God’s Holy Spirit according to Acts 2:38, I now strive to have Gal. 5:22 “.. the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,” v23  “gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” (BSB translation) A reminder that I have not perfected these traits, but it is a joy to be striving for these things instead of the horrible evil list of things the flesh will do along with ignoring God’s wholesome pure truth.

“I Love Who I Am in Jesus” and “I do not love who I was outside of Jesus“. Being in the state of mind, heart, soul, and strength to have the fruits of God’s Spirit in your life removes the need to have any law or police to keep you in good behavior. The law and the police are for those outside of Jesus blinded by the god of this world and the works of their flesh you see in the news, internet, and the community in these last days.

“I Love Who I Am in Jesus” is not a proclamation of being perfect. It is the foundation of a great gratitude and love being born again of the water and of the Spirit. I love being who I am in Jesus and I don’t want to be anything else, but to be more like him every second that I exist. Jesus promotes goodness.

Look at yourself and ask, am I satisfied with who I am right now? Do I want my flesh that will die one day to dominate how I live or do I want my spirit to have the roommate of God’s Holy Spirit showing me the right way to live this life leaving it behind to go to the place called heaven?

Obeying Acts 2:38 puts you inside the body of Jesus and the Spirit of Jesus inside of you.

“I Love Who I Am in Jesus” I am so happy and deeply grateful to God.

Who Are You?

Have you ever wonder what you are, who you are, and what you are meant to do? For me it has been a nagging question for years. We only live this life one time and how we spend ourselves determines our ending and the after effects we leave with others. A key piece to the puzzle came to me like a shaft of light into this area of unanswered questions. I hope this helps you discover what you are, who you are, and what you are meant to be. Lets cross over the bridge to answer these questions.

A bridge is about connecting one side to another. Bridges we see today is where a road comes to a river, ravine or other gaps from one side of the ground we are traveling to the other side where we are heading. This is where the light shinned into my mind, heart, and soul standing on one side of the divide looking to the other side.

What do you find yourself doing with other people on a daily basis over and over? Do you try to spread kindness where ever you go? Do you try to stir up trouble where ever you go? What do you repetitively do with others conscientiously or not? It can be something you do in words, physical contact, facial language, body language, giving things to others…? The answer for myself is what my dad told me when I was a little boy “You can give a person a fish and they will eat a meal or teach a person how to fish and they will eat a lifetime.” In translation I find myself bridging the gap between not knowing or not understanding to the other side of them knowing or understanding for themselves making them self resourceful.  I now see I am a bridge that tries connecting people from the side of not  knowing to the other side of knowing. You are a bridge also.

Now, when I look at other people I see them as bridges trying to connect those around them to things and experiences they have to offer from inside of them. Some people are good bridges and some are bad bridges introducing what they have experienced trying to pass on bridging them from themselves to whosoever will accept them. This is a mind blower when you think about yourself as a bridge influencing those around you good or bad. Parents, relatives, and others pass onto you from their side of doing things , saying things, and their traditions like a bridge from them to you. You make the choice to either try to pass on their things or find out what you are to pass on  and follow that instead. Some pass over their  bridge to you is a temper, a hatred, coldness, alcohol, drugs, lying, cheating, selfishness, physical or verbal abuse, discipline, self-control, goodness, kindness, long-suffering, and you can fill the ones I left out. “For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone.” (Romans 14:7) is something I had heard over the years, but I never truly connected it until I saw the bridge that I am to others in personality, words, and actions I do daily. Whether we are outgoing socially or to ourselves someone  is watching and listening to the things we are sending across our bridge of existence.

What kind of bridge are you and would you like to change or improve what you connect people through yourself?

The continuance of a bridge will be found in the next topic of “The Bridge”.