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(11) You will show me the path of life; In Your
presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures
forevermore. New
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He is such a powerful Personality that, when we are in His presence, it is
very difficult, if not impossible, not to be affected by what He is. This is why
we need to pray—it is an absolute necessity! We need to take advantage of this
invitation to fellowship
with Him, in study and prayer, because this great Personality wants to infuse us
with what He is. It becomes part of us because we are around Him.
We have a proclivity to adapt to the environment in which we find ourselves.
When we have grown up in this world, our character is set in such a way that it
is against God. Only by being in His presence can this anti-God attitude be
counteracted. This invitation to fellowship with Him is our salvation.
And there is not just joy in His presence but love,
peace,
goodness,
gentleness, kindness,
mercy,
self-control, and every other attribute of the Spirit
of God. In His presence is "where it's at."
Can we see the story that is being worked out from Adam and Eve on? Through
the sins of mankind, he became separated from God. But now, through Christ, the
ability to return to His presence, into fellowship Him—into the very Garden
of Eden, as it were—has been opened to us again. It is only in His presence
that all of the good attributes of His Spirit are available to us.
This highlights the importance of Passover.
It is not just the death of Christ but the effect of His death: reestablishment
of communion with God, of fellowship with Him.
Having access to His presence does not mean that the Christian will never
experience depression or despair, but we will never experience it for very long
if we continue to fellowship with God. It will motivate us to refocus on the
reality of what God is working and doing in us. In other words, our knowledge
that we are keeping the commands of God and that we love our brethren and that
we believe in the name (that is, the nature and all of the characteristics) of
Jesus Christ will pull us out of our
doldrums. We know what we have experienced with God in the past and realize that
our present dilemma is not the end of the world.
— John W. Ritenbaugh
To learn more, see:
Love and Fellowship
Related Topics:
Communion With God
Fellowship
Fellowship with God
Fruits of God's Holy Spirit
Joy
Love and Fellowship
Prayer
Prayer as Fellowship
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