Live From The Table

In our last post we talked about how waiting on the Lord describes our fellowship with Him. Let's take that one more step.

The Lord gave me a vision of another aspect of waiting on Him. In this vision I was standing in the kitchen of the house were I grew up in Fowler, Colorado. I was standing next to our kitchen table with a white towel draped over my arm like a waiter. Sitting at the table was Jesus. He was looking straight ahead and I had the privilege of being His waiter.

Here is a picture of a serving son/daughter living a lifestyle of being in fellowship with the Lord on a daily basis. The kitchen table is a place of family fellowship. At that table growing up, we ate a lot of meals. There were a lot of hours talking, laughing, listening and being together as a family. Here Jesus was at the head of the table.

There are so many analogies here, but the main one today is, our lifestyle as a son/daughter is to live day by day out of our fellowship with the Lord. From this table of daily fellowship He will give us specific instructions for each day, as we take the time to fellowship Him with first. Let's not get trapped into being too busy to fellowship with Him.

Created for Fellowship with God

Recently I heard someone say, "If you don't have enough time to wait on the Lord, you are moving to fast." As a son/daughter this doesn't mean we ask our Father for something in prayer and then go watch TV until He answers. The word "wait" means to "be joined to or to be braided." In Isaiah 40:31 it says, "...those who wait on the Lord..." Those individual sons/daughters who will plan time to be in fellowship with the Lord are waiting on Him. Those who will braid themselves to the Lord. When someone braids their hair they will take several strands of hair and weave them together to make one strand. When we set aside time to fellowship with the Lord we are not being lazy or wasting time. It is in this time of being aware of His presence that He will reveal to us more and more that we are His son/daughter.

Our Father is waiting on us. He wants to be in fellowship with us. He wants to reveal His heart to us. In Luke 15:11-32 we see a father's heart wanting fellowship with his sons. The first son had gone from his father's presence in pursuit of his own desires, but the father didn't write this kid off. Every day he looked for his boy to come home. When that boy came to himself and went back to his , we see the father's response. He ran to his son. He didn't put him on probation. His heart was so full to the brim with love for his son, he fell on his neck and kissed him. This father wasted no time to restore their fellowship. The second son was way to busy to fellowship with his dad. That same father went out to this son. Even in the middle of his son's pity party, jealousy and complaining, this father was wanting to restore their fellowship.

Our Father rescued us from the world to live in daily fellowship with us. When we sit down in a chair, close our eyes and say, "Father can we fellowship now?" He doesn't say, "Come back later, I'm busy with this revival meeting in Africa." He has been waiting for this moment. He loves your fellowship. He enjoys being with you. There is no one on the planet that can worship Him like you can. He knows your voice. There is no one else that can say, "Thank You, Father" like you can. When you say, "Father, I love You and I worship You," you have just connected yourself to His heart. It is wonderful to be His son/daughter.

The Firstborn Son came to save

Zaccheus stopped and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, half of my possessions I will give to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will give back four times as much." And Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, because he, too, is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost." Luke 19:8-10
Here we see how the Firstborn Son saw others. Zaccheus was a rich man who had authority and position in the community. Jesus saw beyond that, He saw a man that was lost. He saw a man that needed true riches, authority and position in the Kingdom of God as a son. This man was lost to his sonship and Jesus came, sought him out and rescued him.
One encounter with Jesus and His love and Zaccheus responded by making a shift in the way he saw his stuff. This one encounter with Jesus and his eyes were lifted up off himself to others. "Jesus, I want to make sure the poor are taken care of, and if I have ripped anyone off I'll pay them back with interest."
When we get saved the heart of the Firstborn Son is imparted to our heart. The more we encounter the Lord in our fellowship with Him, the more we want to be and live like Him. It is not about our stuff, it becomes a lifestyle of, "Lord, I want to do what is important to You."
The more we allow Him to reveal to us how much He loves us, the more we want to be in fellowship with Him. As we live our life out of our fellowship with Him, he will reveal to us what He needs us to do.

Christians are sons & daughters of God

1 John 4:15-19 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is (Jesus is the Son of God), so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. We love Him because He first loved us.
We are not "The" Son of God, but in Romans 8:29 it does say Jesus was the Firstborn among many brethren. When we are born again we literally become a son or a daughter of God. We can say, "God I love You" because He loves us first. God literally becomes our Father and now when He says, "I love you", from His perspective He is saying, "I love you as My son or My daughter." This is the flawless (perfect) love that casts out all fear. God our Father loves us like a daughter or son. Let your Father reveal to you how much He loves you. Over the next several days ask Him, "Father, please tell me and show me how much You love me."

This is a great salvation

I have had the privilege of being saved over 28 years and it is still amazing to think Jesus Christ lives inside of me. Paul wrote in Colossians 1:26-27 ...the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints. To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. When I look down at my chest, my arms, my legs, my body, I can honestly say, "Man Jesus, You are the Christ and You are living inside of me," that is truly amazing. This is a great salvation!