Spiritual Ponderings

The following is a compilation of passages containing the word 'receive' with some summary thoughts in the last half. I found this study quite insightful with much more to think about concerning implications in how I relate to God. Receive the Kingdom If you are willing to receive it , this is Elijah, who is to come. (Matthew 11:13-14) " Worthy are you , our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power , for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!" (Revelation 4:11) saying with a loud voice, " Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing !" (Revelation 5:12) He said therefore, "A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom , and to return. (Luke 19:12) If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself ; that where I am...

Since, then, we have such a hope, we act with great boldness, not like Moses, who put a veil over his face to keep the people of Israel from gazing at the end of the glory that was being set aside. But their minds were hardened. Indeed, to this very day, when they hear the reading of the old covenant, that same veil is still there , since only in Christ is it set aside . Indeed, to this very day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their minds ; but when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit. (2 Corinthians 3:12-18) This veil that hardens the heart and blinds the mind is a mindset of forcing everything through a legal interpretation of salvation. In additi...

To love someone openly and actively involves making yourself vulnerable to them to a great degree. Conversely, when someone loves you they choose to increasingly make themselves vulnerable to you. This invokes the issue of trust which in Scripture involves not only the word faith but the word worthy . To be worthy in Scripture usage means being trustworthy. This is key for grasping a fuller understanding of many passages in the Bible. The Lamb who is honored by anthems of soaring praise in Revelation is considered to be of ultimate worth. Yet this worth is not a worth based on economic considerations as we tend to measure things, but rather is a worth involving trust. The slaughtered Lamb of Revelation has won the confidence of the entire universe because He has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt by His own example, teachings and experience that God is fully trustworthy. The very foundation of God's government and the security of the happiness of the entire...