First, “the one who gave birth and nurture is better than the one who only gave birth, and the one who taught is better than the one who only nurtured.” You must know that just accepting the Creator who gave birth to us from the Spirit will not necessarily allow you and me to experience the value of salvation in person after accepting the Lord Jesus. After being hurt by others, you can forgive or accept yourself and the other party from your heart, and pray for both parties. But the Creator who gives birth to us from His Spirit and who nurtures and teaches or disciplines us each time we did wrong against His will can make you and I realize from our heart that our God is alive in the present time with us. He often observes us in our hearts and teaches us to understand the preciousness of salvation. To stop us from returning to our sins, He will teach us and let us know how deeply He loves us. Since God loves us as a sinner, we are also loving Him in response to His love, so we are willing to give up self-centeredness and abandon those bad habits, or to love those who offended or hurt us. Before I repented, I only knew that after accepting the Lord Jesus, I would go to heaven after death. However, I never knew how much the Lord Jesus loves a sinner like me, nor would I put the knowledge of the hope of eternal life deep in my mind and into my heart, hoping one day to return to the Heavenly home to see the Lord’s face. Not to mention, when I take my last breath on Earth, it will make me not afraid, and I will relieve that finally be able to return to my heavenly home. Son, will you miss going to your heavenly home? Dad often didn’t listen to the words of the Holy Spirit and did what I thought was right in my way, but the result was that I was farther and farther away from the Heavenly Father. So, I was often disciplined by God. Among the children of God, I am the weakest and most shameless in the end. Even so, I am longing to return to heaven to see the Creator who loves me and disciplines me! This does not mean that I want to leave you and your mom on Earth and go to heaven to be happy. Dad loves you and mom. I don’t know why, but even if I get knocked down by chance, the Lord disciplined me. Then, I returned to Him with godly guilt, knelt down and confessed my sins, and begged the Lord to forgive me. The peace of forgiveness that came from God always reminds me of my hometown in heaven. When I think about it, I hope to touch the soil and buildings on the ground in heaven with my own hands, want to see the characters in the Bible in person, and I hope to see the Heavenly Father and the Lord Jesus with my own eyes. Job 19:25-27, which has touched my heart even now, is where Job said:
“For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand upon the earth.
And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God,
I myself will see him with my own eyes – I, and not another…”
All people in the world have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God. If everything that I did on earth, I can revisit them with the Heavenly Father and the Lord Jesus. If the Father can let me know what truly happened in those times, and let me know why He is creating people like me, it will make me feel that my life is not in vain. I started to believe in my heart that my Redeemer is alive, and I started to miss the kingdom of the children of God who slept on earth and are still alive in heaven. I can live on earth every day and still miss the day when I go back to heaven and see for myself. They all started a few years ago that I truly repented, was forgiven by God, and found that He still loved and disciplined me. Then, eternity was starting to sprout in my heart. Zechariah, who was filled with the Holy Spirit, prophesied a passage like this:
“to give his people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins,
because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven
to shine on those living in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”
Therefore, I am sharing the gospel of repentance and salvation, and it is for the children of God, and it is also for those who did not believe that the Lord Jesus is the Son of God. The Holy Spirit said to me one time,
“The hope of salvation lies in repentance. It is the same as taking a shower every day in life and washing away the dust accumulated on the body every day. No one will say that I had a shower once a few years ago, and I don’t need to have a shower again anymore.”
Son, don’t believe those kinds of false and absurd teachings. Those teachings that said once you are saved, you will never need to ask for forgiveness from your sins. Those teachings can’t make the hope of eternal life grow in your heart.
Second, the children of God can pour out their hearts to Him and ask why to God for themselves. Why do I encounter difficulties or suffering? The LORD who created the heavens and the earth, can answer or not answer us. Since we don’t understand, why not ask ourselves? If I didn’t relive the pruning of the branches because of what the Holy Spirit showed me in my heart. Then, I curiously asked the Lord if He let the thorns nailed to my feet and woke me up from the intoxication of dissatisfaction, I would be wasting after God’s painstaking care for me. It will be impossible to remind me again that the LORD who created the heaven, the earth, and the human soul sees your heart and my heart. As long as you and I don’t impute what we see as the consequences of sin to others who suffer, I’m talking about all people in the world, not just Christians.
And finally, third, son, learn how to discern the voices that come out of your heart, those that come from the Holy Spirit, and those that come from the evil one disguised as an angel of light. I only know the voice of the Holy Spirit, it won’t make me complacent or self-righteous, after listening to those voices, it won’t make me always remember the dark side of others, won’t let me be hypocritical, won’t let me tell lies, not feeling sorry at all, thinking that if I didn’t say it, anyone had evidence to say that I was lying as if my conscience was lost. I won’t be attracted to think about other things when I kneel down to pray and read the Bible. After reading God’s words, I can’t even remember the scriptures I just read. Will remember those things that can show off in front of others and elevate my social status. If something like this happens to you in the future, you can kneel down and pray to the Lord sincerely, and ask the Lord, “My Lord, why do I have such a situation?” As long as we are not rejected fully by the Lord and we are not afraid, our Lord Jesus has His way through Holy Spirit to let us know what is going on in our life. Hebrews 12:6-8, 10-11 records:
“FOR WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLES, AND HE PUNISHES EVERY SON WHOM HE ACCEPTS.
It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
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For they (earthly father) disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.
For the moment, all discipline seems not to be pleasant, but painful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.”
When the Lord changed even my heart, let me know that He is the true and living God, and made me a child of Him, what else can I unable to let go? What can I do if I cannot even let go? I cannot change back to my old self anymore because the living God will love and discipline me. Also, I don’t like my old self anymore. Son, this is my experience after repentance and rebirth.
If you ask me, what is love? It is love to protect and sympathize. It is also love to punish and discipline.
Thank you, Son of God, my Lord Jesus, that in this world you would come to find me in the crowd! Let me know You, speak to me through the Holy Spirit, nurture and discipline me, let me know that You love me, and let me know that You are alive today. Yes, my Lord, you are alive, forever alive, and you don’t need me to say anything for you, just tell the truth plainly about what you have done for me. This is a believable statement. May the true God of heaven and earth, my Savior, Jesus Christ, pray that in every event of my life, all readers will only see that You are alive, may all the Glory be to Christ, Amen!
Well, in the next article, I can resume my experience of rebirth after repentance.
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Again, greatful for the read. God bless you Chan.
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