"Visitation......................"

Wednesday evening Bible class was a second look at Romans Chapter Seven. Why? I don’t know; but it’s for sure that we will not ever completely conquer any portion of the Word. The Book was given only to give question to our heart and it is holy only because He inhabits it to speak to us as we go. In such sense about twenty of us once again explored this particular part of the puzzle on this occasion, discussing it in relationship as to how its individual message had proven to be truth in our life thus far. There was no arguing Paul’s claim that men remain men, even “in Christ”. The mystery to be probed was our being found “justified”, absolved of all sin and knowing freedom to walk with “no condemnation” in spite of whom and what our walk reveals us to be beneath this claim of being “born again”. Here, it seems, is where many of us are yet not one in our view of the matter. We do not enter into “making war” concerning our different perspectives, for surely only God can give light and take us “through the veil”; but, for me, if what we possess in the way of being pronounced “innocent” is merely our own pardon constructed out of a few verses of Scripture, then all we really have is “religion”. It may well be found valid on the Day of Judgment. He looks at our heart, not our scholarship. I want my verification now, however, and have learned this to indeed be what Jesus extends unto us through the Holy Ghost: an open invitation to step into His presence, a liberty to approach Him again and again for a daily cleansing of the soul, an encounter wherein His touch eliminates all doubt, renewing us as we go……