To be One

Before I started this series, what was pouring out of me was dead drudge. I was not revealing the glory of God, and the enemy wanted me to believe that in my sin and shame was where I should stay. There was emptiness in my heart. Hard times reveal the emptiness. I saw myself. I saw myself wanting things to fill the holes in my heart. My default places to go for fullness are friendships or relationships. I want to be approved and loved. But this time, I sought the goodness of the Lord. I knew that He alone could provide the balm for my weary soul. I see a difference in seeking out the two different things. Seeking my desires which are not born of God versus seeking the desires which are born of Him. They bear different fruits. To continue to believe the lies of the enemy births death, and to choose Christ bears life. Are we in some ways born again and again every time we allow Christ to fill our weak, empty areas?

Jesus, in the Garden, prays for His disciples. He says this,

“Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one.” John 17:11

Jesus is One with the Father. Now he prays for the disciples to be One with one another.

Then, He prays for new believers who will come, and He says,

“I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.” John 17:20-21

So, Jesus is One with God the Father. Then, He wants the disciples to be One with one another. And He wants us to be One with the disciples.

United. Together. One. You and me with God.

Oneness does not come without reconciliation, for we only come broken. Our oneness with God broken in the Garden (Eden), so that in a new Garden (Gethsemane) it could be found.

All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.  We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Co 5:18-21

I started writing to choose Jesus because I wanted to be made whole. I wanted to be made One again with Jesus, with the Father, to be in perfect unity with Him. I know that in the heavenly places unity with Him is now, even though it feels like in the future when His work is made complete in me. That’s what happens when I submit my weak places to Him. I become One with Jesus, who is One with the Father, and I become One with His people.

Oneness with God and people is a continual pouring out of our weak places. Repenting – apologizing and turning away, and confessing to others our heart.

Writers I love to read often have spiritual mentors. They have safe people in which they can get all of the grit out in confession, and then, they are made One with one another and build each other back up into wholeness of Him.

What if the caverns of our heart all calling us to be made One with Him?

Not only that, but if Jesus brings glory to the Father, and we bring glory to Jesus, what if those caverns become vessels of lights, of glory revealed, making us ambassadors to others drawing them near?