Originally posted by Pudgenik
I'm reading your original text again. There are some things that you say are good, and deep. But I can not fully agree with you.
That's good, that you disagree with me a little. I'll get more grace.
What God wants is a union, that we are one in Christ. That Jesus is in me and I am in Him. This is where I am at now as we speak.
There is no disagreement there. I say Amen to this sentence.
God has never rejected me. Even in my stupidity, I was never rejected. He has always been a Loving Father.
But the union in Christ that you speak of is because you must stand upon His merit to be received by God. No sinner may stand upon his own merit. So the union in Christ is being accepted - IN Christ.
As Second Corinthians 5:17 says -
"So then if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away; behold, they have become new."
The old man from Adam could not be accepted by God. It is condemned. So to receive us God had to send Christ that we could be in union with Him, placed in Him and made a new creation.
You were rejected as much as myself. If you are a believer in Christ then Christ has been made to you wisdom - both righteousness and sanctification and redemption -
'But of Him [God] you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God: both righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
That as it is written, "He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord." ' (1 Cor. 1:30,31)
In ourselves we have absolutely nothing to boast in as worthy to be received by a righteous and holy God of glory. But of Him the believer is placed in Christ Jesus. And Jesus is made to that accepted person wisdom from God - righteousness as to the past, sanctification as to the present ongoing process, and redemption (of the body) as to future transfiguration.
Apart from being in Christ we are not accepted. That is why Christ came.
I experienced the Dark Night of the Soul. I wrote in my journal that I would never wish the experience on my worst enemy. When I was at it's depth, I really didn't want to leave. I found peace in the misery of it, if you can believe that.
This sounds like a intense experience. So I will not claim to know what you are speaking of. Is that where you met the Lord Jesus ?
"Somewhere in the shadows you'll find Jesus" says the song. And so very true. Many of us met Jesus Christ in the shadows.
It was a long hard fight to come out of it. And I argued with God all the way.
It is good to be frank and honest with God, with thanksgiving added. It is very effective to be gut level honest with God. I recommend doing so with thanksgiving and praise accompanying one's pouring out his heart.
In the end, I stood before God. There before Him on a stand was all the armor, and authority I had forsaken.
He said to me, "there is no one else" and I told Him, somewhat sarcastically "ya, there is no else crazy enough to be it."
So here I am, Servant of the Most High God.
I am not allowed to tell you any more than that.
But we are accepted by God in Christ.
Christ is
enter-able in a divine and mystical way.
And outside of Christ we are not God's choice.
In
"the Beloved" we are God's choice.
" Giving thanks to God the Father, who has QUALIFIED you for a share of the allotted portion of the saints in the light;
Who delivered us out of the authority of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, In whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins..." (Colossians 1:12-14)
Why God Rejects Me
19 Dec '13 22:23
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