Thinking About Your Day

Greetings Friend.

You have a choice regarding each day, whether to live it:

- in Friendship with God, in Fellowship with God, and in Love with God, or

- in Friendship with the World, in Fellowship with the World, and in Love with the World.

Experiencing eternal life is related to living each day with God.

Experiencing natural life is related to living each day with the World.

God desires you to know Him and live in communion with Him.

The World wants you for itself.

Prayerfully consider and examine your days, your desires, your time, your pursuits, your mind, your heart, and your voice.

Where do you find your Friendship, your Fellowship, and your Love?

Jude 2

Eternal Life

Eternal Life:

.....Do you have it?

.....Does it have you?


Eternal Life:

.....If you say you have it, how do you see (experience) it in your life?

.....If you say it has you, how does it see (experience) you?


Eternal Life:

.....If you say you have it and it has you, how are others experiencing it through you?

Is This Your Christian Experience?

Greetings Friend.

Perhaps such inquiry is unique to me, but I wonder, have you ever seriously asked yourself if you are in the stream of true Christianity and whether or not you are experiencing now, to some degree, the essence (or the chief end) of Christianity? What does experiencing the essence of Christianity look like to you?

Some may consider such questioning unnecessary. Others may realize the value. How are you reacting thus far? Do such questions seem a waste of time or of value? And, I am not questioning your experience of any particular church or denomination. These questions apply to you and God directly.

What is the essence of Christianity? I understand that different people will answer differently. Well, let’s assume for now the essence of Christianity is relating primarily to, with and from God, with respect to all things all the time. That may sound simplistic (even impossible) and seem to be an immediate response any self-identified Christian would produce on the surface. But, let’s drill down beneath that popular and public reply to an individual’s personal and private confession; the more difficult yet more honest area of the heart. Let’s make it more personal and ask what answer comes from the hidden area of your heart?

Consider with me the hidden area of your heart and Jesus’ words from John 14:21 – 23. While being spoken initially to the disciples in the upper room setting, these words go out to all professing believers in Christ and followers of God throughout time in all places. If you profess to be a Christian, do these words describe “your” experience with God?


He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me.

And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father,

and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”

Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?”

Jesus answered and said to him,

“If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him,

and We will come to him and make Our home with him.


Friend, I leave to you, in your own time, the proper meditation on the above passage. Your love to Christ and the Father, your relation to God’s Word, God’s love to you are all obvious subjects to ponder and pray through. What is your relation to them in your heart?

I will conclude, though, by asking a pointed and central question regarding the text and the essence of your Christian experience. Can you honestly say that Jesus and the Father make their home with you?

How are you reacting to this question? It seems an honest and proper question, does it not? Do you accept Jesus’ words? If not, why? Do you find yourself being drawn into the substance of this subject (Jesus and the Father makeing their home with you) or being repelled?

This degree of intimacy with God, as stated by Jesus, is possible, and I’d add is the critical core of one’s Christian experience: Living with God in the most intimate fashion “now.” If you cannot testify that Jesus and the Father have their home with you, prayerfully consider the passage above for the reason as to why. Only after having done so, consult John 14:24 for confirmation.

A lingering question: What would our lives be like if we knew and could honestly testify that Jesus and the Father did have their home with us?

God’s mercy, peace and love be multiplied to you.

Carl