God wants us to see that the foundation for all things, finite and infinite is His eternal existence. He has made provision for us to experience the eternal that we might fully experience Him in the finite. He is interested in revealing the truth of His own existence. He wants us to experience and understand the essence of existence. God is not limited by His infinity nor by the fact that He manifests in the finite. God wants us to be partakers of His divine nature. God desires a dwelling place on earth. Jesus prayed and declared the Father's will: "

I in them, and You in me, that they may be made perfect in one; that the world may know that You have sent me, and have loved them, as You have loved me." John 17:23

We know what God is looking for; therefore we have set our eyes upon the goal of His high calling in Christ Jesus. He is preparing sons and daughters in His image and likeness. He is preparing a people who will overcome "by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony" Revelation 12:11 God is building a dwelling for Himself, a building made of living stones "a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." 1 Peter 2:5 It is a temple "not made with hands." God has drawn us by His spirit and He is preparing us as a bride adorned for her husband. We have attuned our hearts and minds to wait upon the inward and full appearing of Jesus Christ, which God will bring about in His own time. God, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, will do this. When I saw the nature of His life it caused me to give up on myself. I saw that I could reckon myself crucified with Christ. To live; and yet not I, but to acknowledge and experience that Christ lives in me: and that the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Galatians 2:20 I saw that though I had been made subject to vanity Christ was delivering me.

"In Him was life; and the life was the light of men." That was the true Light, which lights every one that comes into the world."John 1: 4,9

The identity that we are looking for is in Him. It transforms us as we seek to know Him. "And this is the record, that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that has the Son has life; and he that has not the Son of God has not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God." I John 5:11-13

He is the foundation of our existence. God is in one mind, and who can turn him? And what his soul desires, even that He does." Job 23:13 He has determined to have a people who will serve Him and express Him. A people established in the truth of His existence and essence. We are interested in His essence and in His manifestation.We can see how the Spirit of God works in our midst to bring about transformation within us. Each facet of creation gives expression to that aspect of glory that God has imparted to it. The sun shines; the moon reflects the glory of the sun; the stars can be seen in the evening sky and show times and seasons. The tree provides leaves for shelter, and brings forth fruit for food. Trees praise God by providing wood, and birds by singing. We were created to manifest and show forth God in the earth,

"And the earnest expectation of the creation awaits the manifestation of the sons of God." Romans 8:19

In doing so we are fulfilling our God-ordained purpose for living. "We count not ourselves to have apprehended: but this one thing we do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, we press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:13-14

He alone is God, and He has chosen to make Himself known. He has elected to reveal Himself. And so we read,

"For you have magnified Your word above all Your name." Psalm 138:2

Why is the Word above His Name? His word reveals Him more than His name. God wants us to focus our attention both on His essence and on His expression. God both exists and manifests. In Jesus Christ His expression was so complete because the Word was God Himself, shining forth in the face of Jesus Christ. "

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."

2 Corinthians 4:6 Knowing that we are called, we pursue Him.

"For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. Philippians 3:20-21 We have an assurance that cannot fail, because our hope is consistent with God's own desire.

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