When you know what God is thinking—
I heard this in my spirit this morning. God was saying if My children knew what I was thinking it would change who they are like it has you.
It’s true —we live life in this bubble of thinking we know what we are doing, but we don’t. What I mean is we think we are okay and are for sure going to heaven when we leave here, but because we haven’t heard Him we don’t know we are living in a false reality.
If you heard Jesus thinking just a few thoughts of you, you may actually feel sick to your stomach. Sick because you had no idea what you thought that is okay, is not okay with Jesus. If you knew that what you didn’t know could land you in that place of weeping and gnashing of teeth, that place of eternal suffering, you would make it your priority to devote your time to know Jesus.
I’ll never forget the first time God revealed a particular sin to me and showed me that if I didn’t change it, I was not going to go to heaven. He made it clear that I ignored His prompting too many times. He said if I didn’t obey Him I would not live with Him, but I would live in hell. I was so scared that it changed me. From then on, I was very careful to do what He said.
I still miss it, I often fall. That’s why I ask for correction, I want to be right with Jesus and I can only know that I am by Him telling me I am. When He thinks of me I want Him to think about the place He is getting ready for me. I don’t want Him to be grieving that He will have to say I didn’t know you. —Matthew 7:23.
I love corrections because if I don’t get corrected, I will live in that bubble of thinking I know and I am okay. But, I don’t and I am not okay. Correction brings truth into reality and the truth is to keep us in His will so that we can live with Him forever.
Those who I dearly and tenderly love.
Revelation 3:19 Those whom I [dearly and tenderly] love, I tell their faults and convict and convince and reprove and chasten [I discipline and instruct them]. So be enthusiastic and in earnest and burning with zeal and repent [changing your mind and attitude]. AMPC
When you know what God is thinking it’s life-changing. When you hear Him, you may suddenly realize you are standing right at the edge of falling into hell. You’ll know then that you didn’t take Him seriously and/or you put Him off one too many times.
Reading the Word of God is not the same as actually hearing Him tell you what He is thinking. Hearing Him correct you is life-changing and as He said, we should be enthusiastic about receiving the truth from Him.
Right here in the middle of this article Jesus stopped me and told me to tend to my laundry. I went downstairs to do the next load I had planned. My washer though was prompting me to do a self-cleaning cycle. I was about to ignore it and do that one more load of clothes anyway. That’s when I heard Jesus tell me that I do that same thing with Him. I ignore what I know to do, and I put Him off. “Okay Lord, I heard You, next time.” The next time He prompts me, I again put Him off, as if I know there will be a next time. The truth is, I don’t know. There may not be a next time, and if there’s not I am too late.
I thought the thing I was ignoring Him in was a little thing, but He didn't. It was something He asked me to do for Him and He was waiting for me. I said yes Lord, but I didn't do it.
When you know what to do and you don’t do it, it is sin.
James 4:17 So any person who knows what is right to do but does not do it, to him it is sin. AMPC
You may have thought you were getting away with something when you ignored Jesus. But on that day when you stand before Jesus, He will sadly have to say to you — “Away from Me, I never knew you, you who practice lawlessness.” —Then, that day, you will know you were self-willed, but then —it will be too late to change it..
It feels awful to hear His thoughts when you have done wrong, but the good of that is you can hear now and change it now before that day when it will be too late.
That is His intention that you know now before it is too late, so that you can do the right thing now and ensure your eternity with Him.
Not everyone who calls Me Lord will enter the Kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 7:21 Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father Who is in heaven.22 Many will say to Me on that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name and driven out demons in Your name and done many mighty works in Your name? 23 And then I will say to them openly (publicly), I never knew you; depart from Me, you who act wickedly [disregarding My commands]. AMPC