We Deserve It All

After the divorce a daughter and mother’s relationship was deformed, for whatever reason the relationship this child had with her mother always seemed to be intricate. She had never been able to understand because the relationship she had with her other siblings seemed far from how their relationship was.

She would try so hard to please her only to have her feelings hurt in the long run. As she grew older she would expect her mother to be there for special events in her life such as giving birth to her grandchildren but no matter how many she had, the mother never made it. She anticipated that her mother would visit yet such desire never had come to pass.

Finally, the daughter realized she had to lower her expectations for her mother. Sometimes we have to lower expectations for man but with God we can expect it all.

This daughter was longing for something that only God could give her and only God can give us it all. We all want it all from our parents.

Our parents relationships are a merely images of the relationship that we as children of God have; nonetheless, the relationship we have with our biological parents are limited while the relationship we have with our heavenly Father is limitless. I know it’s immeasurable because in the book of John 14 we find Jesus talking to the disciples.

Jesus was preparing to leave and before He left He wanted to comfort the disciples He told them, “Do not let your hearts be troubled (John 14:1). Another way of saying this is, allow your heart to be held in reserve with full trust in God.

It was going to be a while before the disciples saw Jesus again and He was basically saying, I will see you later and in my place I will leave you a comforter. As Jesus continued He revealed to them that He was preparing a place for them with many rooms. Not only would they see Him later but they would live with Him.

Thomas was hurt and wanted to go with Jesus and Philip wanted to know who the Father that Jesus spoke of is. It was almost as if during the farewell speech they were trying to know how to locate Him in the future when they felt down, when they got hurt, they needed direction or when they needed no one but the Lord. Jesus on the other hand responded saying, "You have been with me all this time and you don’t know."

Further in the text Jesus answered saying, “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time... Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. Whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it (John 14:9-13).

This text points out several things first it expresses how some us are with the Father daily and don’t even recognize. Second we see the cure in opposition to this dilemma of mind. It suggest that by us believing in Christ or just looking at His creditability of what He has done in our life grants us access to being comforted.

We neglect that when we woke up this morning that God worked a miracle, when we took a breath of air God worked another miracle, when we where able to go to a house at night while it was cold outside, we weren’t laying under a rock shivering, God worked yet another miracle. When we look at our loved ones and they are still there it doesn’t matter if you two are kicking and screaming at each other you are still there alive, God is yet working another miracle.

The proof is there merely because you’re still there breathing and as you as waking up each morning God is working a little on you and working a little on the other person, but we as children of God must believe in Him and not the trouble within our mind.

The next point He makes is when you believe in Christ you do the works, He has everything in place for you. In other words, you will continue the legacy of Jesus Christ but they will be even greater things. Finally, Jesus states because we recognize Him, believe in Him and continue His legacy, yielding our self, the Lord will give us “whatever you ask in my name and anything you ask for in my name I will do.”

When we ask in Jesus name we are pleading. It is by His merit and intercession that we receive such gift. This is interesting because in order to get the I want it all , which is appropriate for our condition we have to give Christ all of us. We have to deplete all the negative cruel ways of thinking, we have to be sold out to Jesus and serve Him and our reward is whatever we desire, which actually lines up with what He desires because we would have stopped thinking opposite of how the Lord thinks. We would be doing what Jesus would do, not what my flesh wants me to do, for we have the victory.

The young lady mentioned previously, might not have the relationship she desires with her mother today or even tomorrow but she has what she needs in Jesus every day. He keeps supplementing the support and relationship that her mother lacks and even what the daughter lacks but one day because this daughter believes and continues to live out the legacy of Christ Jesus she will get it all because she deserves it all and we deserve it all. We deserve to be happy, have joy, be healed, be loved, we deserve it all!

Consider our Father is the Father of all Father’s, He is Alpha and Omega and because God created this world, created all of us we have access to it all and deserve it all, in 2011 let us not fall short because we lack to believe, we lack to do the works of the Lord but let us get it all, for we deserve it all! Let not your hearts be troubled ( John 14:1).