A Reliable Testimony
Psalm 119:138 Your testimonies, which You have commanded, are righteous and very faithful.
Numbers 23:19 “God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
Whenever anyone comes to Christ for salvation the Father speaks over them as His child. He identifies them as His own with the seal of approval which is the Holy Spirit.
Being born again is a work of the Spirit having nothing to do with ones flesh. It is very supernatural indeed. It is then that we are marked by the Father.
If a person believes the Father is marking them as coming up short, not being good enough, not being favored, or always subject to trouble, they have come short of fully believing the good news of the completed work of Jesus.
God does not choose us, bring us to Jesus, fill us with the Holy Spirit and then turn around and abandon us because He regrets His decision. His decision to rescue us and bring us to His Son for salvation was a confident one that wasn’t based on what we can or cannot do. It was based on what His Son could do.
Jesus said in, John 6:44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets, “And they shall all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.
No one came to Jesus on their own as though they possessed some superior wisdom above others. Anyone who comes to Jesus does so because the Father drew them. It is also important to notice that no one will raise themselves up on the last day. Jesus will do that!
That means none of us have any bragging rights regarding our standing in Christ as though we did anything to obtain or to merit the attention of the Father.
The way to know when a person is truly hearing from God is to pay attention to whether or not they are drawn to Christ and give the credit for being right with God the Father to Christ. God did not set things up for men to take the credit. The Father directs men to Jesus because only Jesus can make a person worthy to stand before the Father confidently.
The Father knows the only way for a person to truly be made righteous with the right kind of righteousness is to be born again through faith in Jesus. This has put everyone in the place of being equals in the family of God. It strips away the need for comparison and competition among His own. There is no one superior to another in the faith as though they are special due to something they bring or some birth right in the natural.
Romans 3:21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference;
God’s testimony regarding those who come to Christ is consistent and without respect of persons. His testimony of you is a reliable one indeed. It is not healthy for anyone to compare themselves with another in the body of Christ either to see if they are doing better than the other person, or doing worse. Both conditions of comparison are unhealthy and unsupported in the Scriptures.
I encourage you today to enjoy being His, rejoice in being born again and made a part of the family without prejudice. You are His, and He is yours! You are greatly loved by the Father simply because you came to Him through Jesus when He drew you to Jesus at the start.
