Being Filled with God

"In putting everything under him, God left nothing that is not subject to him. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to him. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering. Both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers. He says, 
 "I will declare your name to my brothers; in the presence of the congregation I will sing your praises." And again, "I will put my trust in him." And again he says, "Here am I, and the children God has given me." - Hebrews 2:8-13

This is all so full of truth. It means so much to us. God wants to bring us into perfect life, that we should never need to go outside of His Word for anything no matter the circumstances.

So many people come with a very small thought concerning God's fullness, and a lot of people are satisfied with a thimbleful of God. Others I have met come with a larger vessel, and they go away satisfied. But you can feel how much God is longing for us to have such a desire for more - such a longing as only God Himself can satisfy.

Let me give you an illustration. Take a screaming child and imagine it being handed from one person to the next. It is never satisfied until it gets to the chest of its mother. You will find that there is no peace, no help, no source of strength, no power, no life, nothing can satisfy the cry of a child but the Word of God.

God has a special way of satisfying the cry of His children. He is waiting to open to us the windows of heaven until He has moved in the depths of our hearts that everything that is unlike Himself has been destroyed! Not one of us ever needs to keep on living dry. God wants us to be filled!

He wants us to be like a watered garden, full of His joy! The Son of God came for no other purpose that to lift and lift, and mold and fashion and remold, until we are shaped in the image of His mind. Through the blood of Christ's atonement, we have untold riches. Dip down and drink.

There is a stream that "shall make glad the city of our God" (Psalm 46:4). There is a stream of life that makes EVERYTHING move. My wife and I were on vacation last week, and as we were walking the beach late one night listening to the crashing waves of water, this scripture began to come alive in our hearts! How refreshing! Drink - dip down and take of the water. It will save you from ever living in a weak and impoverished condition which is no good to yourself or anybody else.

The tide is rolling in. I feel it. Let us see to it today that we get right out into the tide. Get your eyes off yourself; lift them up high and see the Lord, for in the Lord there is everlasting strength!

Refusing to live in a lesser place,

pcraig