Love For The Church

As promised we now spend this meditation, looking specifically at the love Jesus has for His Church, His bride, never forgetting that each one of us believers, is His bride, as each one of us is His Church.

We all know and are ever mindful that Jesus loved us so much as to bring us to the point where we can know His revelations, to live and speak according to Divine revelation and not according to our own educated and trained minds. We know that it is the firm Rock on which His Church is founded, fixed and grows according to Him. We are ever reminded, with excitement and conviction, of the dire importance of revelation in the Body of Christ, the Church.

Listen again to Jesus’ joy, His thrill and utter delight, when one of His students opens his mouth to speak and out comes the exact and pure words of His Heavenly Father. Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven. And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. Matthew 16: 17 – 18. Some things jump out at us with alacrity and solemnity. This is what brings me to conscious attention.

A learner, a disciple, is called blessed by Jesus, who has received Divine revelation from Father God, to speak about His Son Jesus Christ. Does this not make you extremely conscious that only those who receive revelations from Father God, no one else, please God in their speaking? Are we, as God’s Church, speaking from genuine revelations? What is the Cornerstone or Rock of your foundation? Nothing of flesh and blood is true revelation. Only that of God’s Holy Spirit, pleased Jesus.

I confess here that although I know this, it came to me as something new and most practical. I heard, “Jesus’ Church has one builder.” It really struck home hard because I suddenly saw a person who is a builder and began to think of all the work, the commitment, the ups and downs, the times of hardship and trials a builder goes through. I did not speak to a builder per say, but I know builders and have heard good friends and family members speaking of in-laws who are builders.

Some time ago, a very impressive and stately building was erected in the town area where we lived. Our granddaughter, each time we passed by the new building, was proud, joyful and most vocal in telling us that “Dada built that.” What I am saying is that not only is a builder proud of his or her workmanship, but family members are proud also.

In the text previously quoted, Jesus says that He will build His Church. On this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. Jesus is the Builder, the sole Builder of His Church and He is unashamedly proud and uncompromisingly delighted to assure us that no one and nothing, not even the gates of hell, can overcome His Church. Where are you in all of this? Have you been consciously living in this Spoken Word of our Risen Lord, Jesus Christ? O how the Holy Ghost has totally changed my mind and my thoughts about Church and Jesus. Jesus builds His own Church, not human beings. Jesus ensures that His Church will not be overcome by the gates of hell, nor human powers.

This has truly brought me to a rude awakening and one for which I am very grateful. I have been stopped in my religious tracks. What about you? Let us pray God to give us hearing ears, heeding hearts and helping voices that we may hear and obey all that He speaks to us.

Let us seek to be ever mindful of our response to speak only what we know, through the revealing, teaching, showing Holy Spirit.