If God Stopped Thinking Of Me, He Would Cease To Exist

November 24, 2014

If God Stopped Thinking Of Me, He Would Cease To Exist

Don’t let your hearts be troubled.

Trust in God, and trust also in me.

John 14:1b

Sometimes our adversary, the enemy of God, confuses us into thinking Christian faith is about believing in certain doctrines such as incarnation, salvation, atonement and redemption. Those doctrines can be quite helpful to grasp the immense love that is God, but they are not the essence of biblical faith. Biblical faith is all about trusting God. Our Abba’s will for us is for us to respond to His unconditional love for us, by unconditionally trusting Him. The foundation for such trust lies in our awareness of this truth spoken by the Seventeenth Century priest and mystic, Angelus Silesius, “If God stopped thinking of me, he would cease to exist.” I believe those words were true for Silesius, they are true for me, and they are true for you! When you trust your Abba Father, who is always thinking of you, the following is also true.

Because of Christ's redemption, you are a new creation of infinite worth. You are deeply loved, you are completely forgiven, you are fully pleasing to your Abba, and you are totally accepted by Him. You are absolutely complete in Christ. When your performance reflects your core identity in Christ, that reflection is dynamically unique. There has never been another person like you in the history of humankind, nor will there ever be. God has made you an original, one of a kind, a special person.

Wait! There’s more.

Because Christ is your life, God, your Abba Father, declares that you are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Abba further attests that this righteousness, since it was given to you as a gift, is not based on your behavior. You are not his righteousness or new creation because of what you did, or what you are doing, or what you have refrained from doing. Rather it is because of what Abba has done in uniting you to Christ in death, burial, resurrection, and enthronement.

Go and trust in who you are in the eyes of your Abba Father.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com. The BLOG is also available on Amazon Kindle, by subscription.

Publications by Alex M. Knight:

·        Seeking the Life in Christ, Meditations on the New Testament and Psalms has been published and is now available at Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle.

·        The second edition of  First Think – Then Pray is available on Amazon Kindle.

·        Meditations on The Story of My Life as told by Jesus Christ has been released as an e-book on Amazon Kindle.

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