KEEP THE CHANGE

"I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. "To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

Joh 10:9, 10:3

What great confidence in knowing that my Lord Jesus, to this day and this moment, "knows those who are His," and, "Everyone who names the name of the Lord is to abstain from wickedness."-2Ti 2:19   When we truly receive the Spirit of God, that indwelling brings change. Change to our way of thinking. Our behavior. Our words. Our touch. It is the change that confirms His indwelling in us.

Over these years, have you kept the change? Have you permitted and encouraged that change to grow, to prosper, to become permanent?

Perhaps you have allowed yourself to become un-changed, or have misplaced that change God so unselfishly gifted you with. Maybe you never really accepted the change. Becoming a pretender of change in public, continuing to sin in private. "Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?'  "And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.' -Mat 7:22-23 How horribly sad this would be. For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the wicked will perish. -Psa 1:6

Imagine for a moment that you were there on Golgatha the day they hung Jesus on that cross. Picture in your mind his naked humiliation, mind ripping pain he suffers, and you see YOUR NAME CLEARLY WRITTEN ON THE PALM OF HIS HAND!! "Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands....Isa 49:16, and in that moment, you cannot take a breath but fall to your knees pleading that you be forgiven for allowing the change to slip away. The change that HE is offering again before the time YOU TAKE YOUR last breath!

In his contemplation, Solomon writes alluding to Jesus; "Put me like a seal over your heart, Like a seal on your arm. For love is as strong as death, Jealousy is as severe as [Hell]; Its flashes are flashes of fire, The very flame of the LORD.  "Many waters cannot quench love, Nor will rivers overflow it...Son 8:6-7

When you keep the change, you keep the love! Love overcomes death.

The LORD is good, A stronghold in the day of trouble, And He knows those who take refuge in Him. -Nah 1:7. "In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.  "If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also. -Joh 14:2-3

Beloved, if you have no change, there is no salvation in you. If you have misplaced your change, pray. Call His name. Ask Him to refill you, renew you, and make His change eternal in you.

As you walk in His light, Oh precious creation of His, KEEP THE CHANGE!

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