A heart like His

Christ still lives on earth in His people, so I have been told and so I am coming to believe. Recently I heard a message from someone about how we learn our Father’s heart as we work with Him. I have been learning my Father’s heart over the last couple years of following Him. He must live in His people because there are people on this earth with a heart like His.

I want to go home to Him, but I am going to get to know His heart so well here on earth. Someone once told me something about things I wouldn’t experience in heaven. I think one was grace, which I suppose is true though being in heaven will be the result of grace and a constant reminder Jesus is the only answer. But I won’t experience Him the same way there as I do here.

I want to go home to Him, but I also want to know Him here. I want to learn to trust Him more. I want to learn obedience. I think obedience is beautiful. I want to begin to enjoy living with an experience of grace. It is occurring to me right now that I can only do that if I am aware of the condition of my backyard. Otherwise, I will just be a moralist trying to put everyone else under the law. I sure don’t want to do that with my own rules or with someone else’s.

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law. Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law. Rather, through the law, we become conscious of our sin. – Romans 3:19-20