A Walk In Maturity
(Part 4 of Four)
As we continue to add strength upon strength, every part of our lives teem and run over with YAH’s agape love. We love our Lord because He first loved us. Because He loved us first, even when we rejected Him, we so love our neighbor, with no expectation of love in return. That is the “self”-less love that issues directly from the heart of the Father.
It is a love Paul described for the Corinthians in 13: 4-8 of his first letter. “Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity but rejoices in truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.” Paul concludes his thoughts in v. 13 with, “Now abide faith, hope, and love, these three; but the greatest of these is love”.
This is the progression of “strength to strength” I believe our loving Lord wants for us. It is a progression I believe the sons of Korah envisioned in this Psalm. It is a progression from childhood to spiritually mature adulthood Paul wrote of in chapter 13 of his first letter to the Corinthians. It’s also a progression Peter articulates in his epistle.
Those that neglect this progression in their lives are as Peter says in v. 9, “short-sighted, even to blindness, and have forgotten (they) were cleansed from (their) old sins.” These will live in misery and maybe never even realize it. Yet, those that truly “go from strength to strength” make their “election and calling sure and never stumble”, as Peter says in v. 10.
Rather than just climb out of our valleys up the mountains before us, we now are enabled to dance upon the mountaintops, as the Shulamite woman said of Solomon in 2: 8 of his song. “The voice of my Beloved (Yeshua, my Husband)! Behold He comes leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills”. Go from His strength to His strength, my friends, and be eternally encouraged both now and when you “appear before Yeshua in Tsiyon!”
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