Of Mentor's and God's Work in Us

Thank you for whoever has come across this post and is taking time to read this. Thank you for sharing a little bit in the things of my heart. It has been a short while since I updated and this post (not unlike other posts) contains some things that are very close to my heart.


Mentorship, I thank God for the concept and for its manifestation in my own life.
There is so much wisdom and encouragement and strength that come when you have a mentor. Two older and close friends have in time become these things to me and I’m grateful beyond what I can express here in words.
In this season in my life they have both proven to be an invaluable part of my personal growth, and spiritual health. God is faithful to work through others for our good.

Speaking of God working through us; permit me to share a few thoughts about this. There is a book I have been reading, which I highly recommend for any believer in Christ/Messiah; “The Normal Christian Life” by Watchman Nee.

I am going to type a short excerpt here just to emphasize the power of what God does through us in His Son. This is quite awesome.


“God will not give me humility or patience or holiness or love as separate gifts of his grace. He is not a retailer dispensing grace to us in packets, measuring out some patience to the impatient, some love to the unloving, some meekness to the proud, in quantities that we take and work on as a kind of capital. He has given only one gift to meet all of our need: his Son Christ Jesus.

As I look to him to live out his life in me, he will be humble and patient and loving and everything else I need—in my stead. Remember the word in the first Epistle of John: “God gave unto us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath the life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not the life” (1 John 5:11-12). The life of God is not given us as a separate item; the life of God is given us in the Son. It is “eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23). Our relationship to the Son is our relationship to the life.
It is a blessed thing to discover the difference between Christian graces and Christ: to know the difference between meekness and Christ, between patience and Christ, between love and Christ. Remember again what is said in 1 Corinthians 1:30 “Christ Jesus…was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption.” The common conception of sanctification is that every item of the life should be holy; but that is not holiness, it is the fruit of holiness. Holiness is Christ. It is the Lord Jesus being made over to us to be that. So you can put in anything there: love, humility, power, self-control.

Today there is a call for patience: he is our patience! Tomorrow the call may be fore purity: he is our purity! He is the answer to every need. That is why Paul speaks of “the fruit of the Spirit” as one (Galatians 5:22) and not of “fruits” as separate items. God has given us his Holy Spirit, and when love is needed the fruit of the Spirit is love; when joy is needed the fruit of the Spirit is joy. It is always true. It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things, God has always one sufficient answer, his Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every human need.

` How can we know more of Christ in this way? Only by way of an increasing awareness of need. Some are afraid to discover deficiency in themselves, and so they never grow. Growth in grace is the only sense in which we can grow, and grace, we have said, is God doing something for us. We all have the same Christ dwelling within, but revelation of some new need will lead us spontaneously to trust him to live out his life in us in that particular. Greater capacity means greater enjoyment of God’s supply. Another letting go, a fresh trusting in Christ, and another stretch of land is conquered. “Christ my life” is the secret of enlargement.

We have spoken of trying and trusting, and the difference between the two. Believe me, it is the difference between heaven and hell. It is not something just to be talked over as a satisfying thought; it is stark reality. “Lord, I cannot do it, therefore I will no longer try to do it.” This is the point most of us fall short of. “Lord, I cannot; therefore I will take my hands off; from now on I trust thee for that. “We refuse to act; we depend on him to do so, and then we enter fully and joyfully into the action he initiates. It is not passivity; it is a most active life, trusting the Lord like that; drawing life from him, taking him to be our very life, letting him live his life in us as we go forth in his name.” ~end~

Awesome Right? Just. Wow.

In other news I got a car. I love it with all its quirks and just am grateful to be riding again. Right now I’m just trying to organize a lot of things in my life, work, finances, my time. I really want to optimize my time and resources. I want to eat healthier too. So much I want for this year. I want to save, I want to travel. (Short term to visit one of my mentors who lives a state away) and long term (Israel to the wedding of some friends I was blessed to really get to know last summer) I think I will end hear.

I’m grateful for life. I’m grateful for the completed work of God’s Son and the fullness and supply that I have in Him. I’m grateful for my mentors, and I’m grateful for life. Oh yeah. And I’m grateful for life 