A NEW BEGINNING
Matthew 6:7-13 speaks of the Lords prayer, and many of our prayer lives have to do with the quantity of our words and not with the impact of our lives. God said that in His rest, as He created that day to bring completion and a new expectancy in our life, we do not need to ask for the things that we need. We are not created to pray to bring creation. He created me after He created the environment, so that I am in that environment that can bring forth a new relationship and communion with God. The eighth day is the day that the Lord has made because Jesus Christ is teaching us that in the eighth day we don’t have to pray for something that we need. The eighth day is when we are plump and when the fat comes spiritually. We pray “give us this day our daily bread.” That means my needs are fulfilled continuously. We are consumed with needs because we are people who are needy. It does not matter how much God blesses us, our needs seem to grow with the blessings because we do not come into the eighth day where God has brought a new beginning in our lives. God has not closed the seventh day. We have to come to the seventh day that He sanctified and hallowed, to come into the rest of God; that we might come into the eighth day where we don’t have to continuously pray for our needs, but where we are completed in Him.
Imagine that you are a Christian, and all your life long, you wait for that one opportunity that you hope you will have in God, and that becomes the purpose of your life. Our purpose has nothing to do with us reaching goals, but it is the process of life for us to come into a new beginning and into the fullness of life. Not many Christians come into that fullness. It says small is the gate and difficult is the way that leads to life, and there are very few who find it. (Matthew 7:14) It is difficult to find the entrance into life. We have to come into the eighth day and the new beginning in our lives. God rested on the seventh day and Jews observe the Sabbath, which means celebration. It is a celebration as God celebrated because He saw that it was good what He created. Celebration has to do with something that is completed, and that we see that it is good, and we rest in celebration.
When Jesus came, He attacked the Sabbath that the Jews observed because He came to complete something for us to enter into. He came to give us the ‘day’ that the Lord has made that you and I can come into the fullness of life where we know that we do not live in vain. It has nothing to do with our outer success, but everything to do with the inner revelation of what Christ is.
In His Love,
Sigi
Devotions
Posted: July 2009