“We are complete in Him who is head over all powers and principalities”. There is nothing else, and no one else who completes us. You can fortify yourself against the objects of your fears, but they are still there. There is only one true consolation. The fear of dying is the ultimate enemy. Fear is the poison that kills spiritual growth. Death is not so much a one time event of being dead, but a life driven by fear, that causes one to be dead to the provisions from God Almighty, gifted to us by His promises in His Son, to be truly free from all fears because “he who fears has not been made perfect in love because fear involves torment”. That’s the fruit given to those who reject Gods covenental provisions. So they turn to the world for their comfort and forget the One who is in control.
We see the effects of fear in the parable of the unjust steward who collected funds from his employers accounts to protect himself against joblessness homelessness and fortify his retirement. He said “4 I have resolved what to do, that when I am put out of my stewardship, they (my old customers) may receive me into their houses”. He was afraid to be without so He created a back-up plan, a retirement plan. This is the product of self-consciousness of those who do not know the gospel. We see a brick wall and we don’t know what is on the other side so we protect ourselves against this fear of unknown. “He who seeks to save his life will lose it, and those who lose their life for Christ sake will (have it) saved”. This is what we are talking about. When you run to the end of your abilities, your life is expired. But in truth, we can never deplete the resources of the almighty God who said “let there be light” and immediate it appeared out of nothing without resistance.
There are many who pursue to save the earth and are ignorant of Him who can recreate it with the same simple words. They spend their time and their estimation doing what they think is good when the good that they do is ignorance of him who did it all, who is the one who controls it all even now. Even in spite of all the “pollution” you deem to be bad. Those are presentations that have people “serving the creation over the creator” who will be damned for doing so because they reject God as inferior. He would not have rested the seventh day if you could alter, change or otherwise modify His word of “It is good, very good”.
Romans 1 says of these people 25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. Creation serves the creator just fine even now by mirroring to humans the conditions of their hearts. Creation cannot fall or be redeemed. It can only mirror back to humanity their own condition. And because man was made on the seventh day, you can see humanity as the recipient.
“If you understand Gods never ending love, and his inexhaustible resources, you can relax your grip on this age and fall into the hands of the almighty God who eagerly awaits you to do so. God said “I will never leave you or forsake you”. But some just cannot have solace in that. So they depart to look for another, or others, plural. This is spiritual adultery that causes blindness. How? because they cannot see Him who is “at hand”.
So speaking of the wise steward “For the sons of this age are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of light.9 “And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by unrighteous[d]mammon, that when[e]you fail, you may be receive you into everlasting habitations?” Nope! That is something money cannot buy.
Fear is the abscence of faith. Your faith has trade in value. But you must let go of your fears to recieve the exchange. If you truly trust God, you don’t need a dependance on back-up plans. And today everything as a warentees available to buy. However “you cannot serve God and Mammon. For it is God who said “I will never leave you or forsake you” need not come back in the flesh a second time as a man to fulfill His Word to us. That promise is retroactive as the first one to receive in the faith.
We are complete in Him, if you can receive it. The price was paid at the cross to reverse the curse and undo the fear based mind that started with Adam who said to God “I heard your voice and was afraid”. God knew this would happen. Adam tried to complete himself with a fig leaf, and people today are covering themselves with all kinds of promises and provision from contracts and authorization of writs, promising everything but eternal life. And the words of job was, Naked I came naked I go, blessed be the name of the Almighty God” was his confession of faith.
The truth is God sees through all of our fig leaves, coverages and coverings anyway. For the word of the Creator is sharp and Powerful sharper than any two-edged sword dividing even bone and Marrow joints and ligaments it is a discerner of the thoughts of the intent of the heart. And there is nothing hidden from the eyes of Him with whom we must give an account. Hebrews 4:12.
You cannot be afraid and trusting God at the same time. Consider the old women who donated her two mites, or in our culture her last pennies. That was all she physically had, but for us the elect? She truly trusted in God and was spoken of for our guidepost. Not that God is asking us to live without money, but not to put too much trust in the uncertainty of riches. Our trust being in His word who said to us the Elect “ask anything in My name and I will do it”. Was not telling us how to bully, but just that since God owns everything, and that “He has given us everything that pertains to life and godliness through knowing Him who has called us to glory by virtue”. And virtue being a description of our invisible part. He is let us know here what our new composition truly is.
The day we have the most money, and the day we have none should be equally joyous. Like the Widow with the two mites, she knew that the greatest joy comes NOT from without but from within. Just as it said it’s in the book of James That every good and perfect gift comes from the Father of Lights in whom there is no variableness nor shadow of turning.
Even now, The Kingdom of God is at hand, is a promise retroactive to the time before time because of “the Lamb slain from the foundations of the world”. Check your status.