Painting by Avril Brand.
The ‘conversation’ of a person’s life, as the Lord defines it, is their relationship unto him: the interpretation of scriptural word having its meaning stated in its fulness within the volume of the whole book. And not in one verse, but scripture must be compared with scripture that ‘sound’ discerning might be equitably understood, as the Spirit of the Lord intends.
— The conversation that we have with God being ‘said’ daily, wether we speak or wether we be silent; and being expressed through the thoughts and intents of our heart and mind; our actions, and how we comport ourselves. — All this showing the degree of our attainment unto holy wisdom and holy understanding in the ways, and paths of God. Yes, all the holy things of God; whereas, the exactitude of our alignment unto the Spirit of the Word, which is called Righteousness, Abba, Elohim, and God The Father, shall be as a testimony that we express to God.
Therefore, he has ‘called’ us ‘in his Sun, Jesus,’ whom God has decreed is the fulness of Truth & Righteousness to “be ye holy, as I am holy.” The history of the kings of Israel bearing a great example of the importance the Lord places on the need for a close ‘conversation’ with the Lord, else the integrity of the house fall through and the walls of the city collapse, and a famine of hearing the Word Of God consumes and lays waste, even desolate, such a person and such a city. For God, having separated a people unto himself has called that family from Abraham, through Isaac, and Jacob, — as a spiritually righteous people, and not an ethnic people. The Lord having mercy on whom he will have mercy; calling his inheritance through righteousness; that they having the righteous Spirit will respond with the right conversation unto God, and their life shows the work of God; even a lowly and meek heart and mind; that is, they whom love the Holy Spirit of God, as we learn from and of it through the Word of God, whom god has called, Jesus the Christ. It is then so, that the Lord knoweth the desires of our hearts and the purposes of our mind; the Lord, whom having given some of us a new heart of flesh, (having taken out the stony heart), has ‘quickened’ some of us; that is, he has brought a key part of us back to life, though we have walked as the living: God has granted new life with his Holy Spirit, translating us into his kingdom, replete with the necessary foundation to understand his ‘pure language;’ our ‘conversation’ shifting then from vanity and things that lead to vanity, which is fruitless, unto better things through the mind of Christ, and this, according to the Spirit of the Word.
Yea, the Lord has called his people to their feet as ministers of his ‘house,’ and he has given each an eternal inheritance of glory with him, that in the ‘ins and outs’ of our daily living, we no longer toil without hope, seeking those things of earth which have no eternal sustenance, nor can deliver our souls from death, but reaching unto God through the wisdom and understanding that he has presented us with in his Word, we find that we are not exhausted in godliness, for we find it pleasing and acceptable unto God, and fruitful unto us; yea, we see that we are at peace because of God.
Such things said, the Lord, we read in his Word, calls for equitableness with all in his people who lean upon the Spirit of the promises of God, that all might see the holy testimony of the conversation of these whom are ‘of God,’ as the example of the work of God, that they might also come to understanding. But, — though the Lord calls all to the ‘marriage supper,’ only they whom have been quickened with the Spirit of God in them, shall present an ‘upright’ life; a ‘conversation’ of thanksgiving unto God that is lowly and meek unto God, and that does show fervency of Spirit, yet a quiet heart, and a sharp Christ mind.
But vanity has no portion in the ways of the Lord, though the semblance of righteousness be mimicked, as it would seem, perfectly; God having played the stumbling stone in the way of humanity, that Jesus Christ is the fulness of the Word of God, and not only that, our faith must have good alignment with the soundness of the Word of God, that all things of those whom have their ‘conversation’ with God, shall exude the manner of Jesus, and that right early in all our ways, if it be that we truly bear with God, yearning and hastening the equity of the Spirit of God in us, that as faithful ministers we are partakers of the blessings of God, and also that royal priesthood, the people of the Lord. Having then an ‘unction’ of God, being called the priests of God, how shall we do each day, and how shall our speech be ordered to speak aright, yea, with equity? — Is it not so that the Lord has called for us to be light and easy as he is light and easy; and has he not called us to be peacemakers after the manner of the Spirit of His Word, and not after the way of humanity without faith in God? The peace of God being defined much differently than the often vain purposes of the legacy of peace on earth that has not God in it. Such work being the profession of they who have the Holy Spirit, and not of themselves being gifted the Righteous Spirit because they were righteous before through their work, but it being the mercy of God, that we now speak after the ways of God, for now we walk on a better path that none other can walk who has not the living Spirit of God, but we, being freed of vanity and covetousness, cease from toiling, and have begun to become fruitful unto better things, our ‘conversation’ be ordered and holy, itself the sacrifice of our life from living unto ourselves and others, unto living unto God, and with God, — that we then may be fruitful unto all, even as the Lord has made us to be fruitful, that his purpose, yea, that his will be accomplished unhindered.
Solomon’s conversation with God went astray in his old age: whom had been so wise, but in his old age, followed after the covetousness in desiring and pleasing many women, and setting his heart unto them and their false gods, and even creating public altars leading the hearts of of the people astray, forsook God, and so, God said unto him, and accomplished the same, that he would take nearly all the kingdom from him. Painting by Gustave Doré.
The Lord, not being fooled, nor a human being as we are, needing nothing from us, will not forsake himself, nor his Word; hence, if we ‘walk’ with God, we understand the frailty of our condition, though we have the Spirit of God, that even the chiefest of us can be blinded in the seeking of glory, rather than in the humility of lowliness unto God, whom has laid that stumbling block, of which none can ignore, nor any craftiness or device can dismiss or displace, for that stumbling block is God himself, whom raises up and bringeth low whom he pleases; he giveth life and taketh at his own discretion, having mercy on whom he will have mercy, though he be plenteous in mercy and the most gracious.
Therefore, if we ‘fear’ the Lord, we understand that the’ fear of the Lord is clean,enduring forever, (Psalm 19:9a), and that being defined as great solemness of respect, even a goodly dread, rather than an anxious fear that diminishes us. But do not be fooled, the words of God are their own interpreter, and such important understandings should not be only deduced from the reading of my words, but in the perfect soundness of the Word of God, whom has given us wisdom, that we order our ‘conversation’ aright with him, finding ourselves rejoicing, rather than being desolate and dead in spirit; finding ourselves at peace and in the purposes that Christ would have us partake in. Thereby, we are not filthy communicators, using slanders, nor are we scoffers of Jesus, whom God has said is the embodiment of all holy scripture, yea, the completeness of holy scripture shall not be denied and shall have its effect on this side unto some according to their conversation with God, and it shall have its effect on the other side unto them whom have the Spirit, having been caused to have a better conversation with God; a holy life of triumph in the things of God: grace, goodness, gentleness, love, joy, peace, faith, temperance, and the longsuffering Spirit which God exemplifies through his patient graciousness unto those whose ‘conversation’ with him is close in Spirit.
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