In Him

How many of us truly living by grace? How many of us can really sit back, not be anxious for anything and give EVERY little anxious thought we have over to Him? We’re always worried about doing something or the need to do something. Yesterday, I was just thinking that I really want to get closer to God and really want to pray more and just be able to talk to Him all the time, then God showed me that I was actually being anxious about that!!! How ridiculous! God also showed me that I do that all the time! All He wanted me to do was to stop doing it (getting anxious that is). All He wants me to do is to just open my heart to Him and actually ASK Him what He wants me to do. How easy is that! He really doesn’t want us to worry about anything, even praying because He has already done everything thing for us. He took every WORRY with Him on the cross. As soon as I did that, I was surrounded is His presence and realized that all He wants is my heart. That is how you can walk in His perfect peace. We can’t do anything, only LET GO of our heart, stop trying to protect and control it, and give it over to Him. When we do that, He gives His heart over to us. Don’t you want to know the heart of God? I know I do! Can we just stop and let ourselves rest in Him? That is what the scripture means to ‘walk in Him’. “As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him” Colossians 2:6. A lot of us just receive Jesus, but stop there. Some might even walk with Him, but here it is saying to walk IN Him. If we just receive Christ and that’s it, we are so open to attacks and can easily forget the things of God. “Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to tradition of men, according to the basic principals of the world, and not according to Christ” Colossians 2:8. We can be totally affected and start believing what people say to us who are either in the world or not walking in Him, even if it is against the word of God. Our thinking, and the way we live, is just like being in the world, even though we have received Christ. Even when we’re walking with Him, the enemy can get to 3 of our sides, but when we are actually walking IN Him, we are totally protected, nothing can pull us down! All we have to do is let God do everything for us! The enemy can try and come against our flesh, but if our inward man is protected, it doesn’t matter. The flesh will go back to this earth and disinigrate into dust. The times when we are not fully walking in Him and we do get attacked, we re-act in the flesh, just as the world does. We just have to believe that we are surrounded by Him. We are surrounded by His power, His love, His peace, His presence, His joy, HIS FULLNESS (Colossians 9). It’s all through us and all surrounding us, if only we knew who we really are in Him.