So Little Time Left To Love!

So Little Time Left To Love!

How much "seriously" do we truly believe about God and what he has been so lovingly and patiently expressing to us?
Do we really really love him? Do we really honestly love one another?

I have been told that my time here is very short in fact there is no real promise made to me even of tomorrow or weather we may ever see or speak with one another again.
With this being said it seems to me how amazingly clear it is in understanding what is most important and how in these few words I might express this to you.

Throughout my life I must confess that I honestly never really loved you! Never truly cared or was ever willing to sacrificially give of myself completely.
My heart now yearns for your complete forgiveness. Having been blessed to experience such a true sense of Godly sorrow and repentance I openly confess past selfish desires in withholding from you the greatest gift one might bestow upon another. This gift I speak of is the gift of Love itself. Again I now beseech your complete forgiveness?

True forgiveness like love is a liberating thing for the receiver as well as the giver. A refreshing flowing spirit of pureness, truth and oneness shared between two yielding hearts. This giving and sharing of love I believe is in essence the Receiving, Giving and Sharing of Almighty God himself! In our intimate awareness and searching for the characteristics of what love is we ultimately find "HIM" the one true Father of all creation manifested with all power and grace through his son Christ Jesus.

With so little time, I choose now to Love you and to say for the cause of Love what must be said! Leaving past selfishness, indifference and fears behind I pray that only his purity in spirit and truth envelop both our hearts, now as we look intently into the eyes and face of Jesus.

Dearly beloved, is it fair to say that you and I have and do profess our faith, in the one true God the Father and his Son Jesus Christ?
And as such do we also profess ourselves baptized true believers within the Christian Family? So then it is of a truth that through the years
(Based upon one another's professions) we acknowledge one another as sincere followers of Christ?

Earlier I entreated for your forgiveness in my failure to love completely as I should and that my understanding of such love emanates directly from and through the receiving and sharing of God himself. Well again I must confess out of a sense of what I call ( Willful Ignorance and Deception), that I had you believe my "Profession" alone confirmed in some way or was symbolic of the true love I had for you!

A profession is really what it is, "a profession!" of what and who " I profess to be and will do, but may not be inclusive in what I set my heart and endeavor to fulfill. A profession of itself apart from the the actual believing in ones heart which leads to doing, is a false representation of what the true Love and characteristics of God portray. While allowing you this assumption about me as a Christian Believer it was in all respects a lie under the guise of professing pretense and half truth. Again as the Holy Spirit leads I must seek your complete forgiveness now and without delay because my time here as I've stated earlier is very short.

Dearly beloved, Do you believe ultimate Truth to be found within the word of God the Bible? Do you accept all and believe the Holy Scriptures as it points to Jesus Christ the Son of God? Are you of one accord in the fact that HE alone is the Way! The Truth and the Life and that no man cometh unto the Father but through HIM?

Praise be to God, this I "NOW" believe too yet with a much more profound understanding, wisdom and knowledge than any mere profession alone could ever afford! If asked in times past weather I knew the One True God I would have in the gravest darkness and ignorance gave a resounding yes! and Amen!

Truth be told, I'd only heard these wonderful stories about his goodness, mercy and love. In a real sense I was merely passing the word along by way of Church fellowship, Friends and Family tradition. Yet as the Apostle Peter so aptly coined the phrase " I Never Knew The Man" I in my own heart had never met this Risen Savior face to face. Nor was I ever completely yielded to him as Lord and Savior of my life.

Most assuredly, any form of serious search and study of the Scriptures had been honestly for me one big joke were I to compare these efforts with other past achievements for the sake of career or other self indulgences. Yes God was real to me but only on Sunday mornings and that contingent upon my willingness to squeeze in that hour of available time or resources! But let not anyone else presume any such judgmental assessments of the overall relationship between ME and MY JESUS!
I would have gone to Hell and Back to prove you wrong! And maybe just maybe even given my life if pushed hard enough!

So so sad ( at that time ) I might have sacrificed all for "that" Jesus, only to grind my teeth in anguish and disbelief upon hearing the heart wrenching words of the True and Righteous Lamb of God say to me, Depart from me ye worker of iniquity I NEVER KNEW YOU! Such deep and penetrating truths are extremely hard to fathom yet it remains a grime reality to many who like myself had conveniently chosen to ignore.

It has become very very late in this day and my time here is of a truth at the midnight hour indeed! This phrase relative to the shortness of time you may have heard often by way of preaching or through past remembrances of what Noah experienced and testified of in Old Testament Scriptures. We've heard voices of old and new vehemently express that Jesus is coming Soon, So much these days and to the point where ( Like the Unrepentant in Noah's day) we too dismiss such talk as mere ravings. Glory be to God, I once was blind but now I see! The voice of God is still ringing true to form and the indepthness of his Grace for now is still surprisingly abundant!
Hallelujah that the door of the Ark was still open for me as it is for all who heed his call.

To truly Love one another as Christ admonishes us to is to first know and learn of the one who is LOVE and the characteristics of that Love. When I first met my wife, all I wanted to do was to be ever so near her, to be close and available. Attentive to her voice, her sound, her smell, her touch, her likes and dislikes. The requests she made answered before they were spoken. Intoxicating she became in my thoughts and inclusive in all my dreams, decisions, triumphs and disapointments. Every part of my being, in her and her in me. With all the passion in life we might share, we were as one and in love!

How much, much more a precious jewel does God liken us in deep intimate and loving relationship with him the creator of all things! Our own intimacies as created beings are not to be compared with the Glorious love and superior Joy and bliss connected in our deeply abiding fellowship with him. Our ultimate enjoining with the sole master of all the universe in Majesty and Power can scarcely be imagined!

To Love the Lord thy God with all your heart, mind, body, soul and spirit. This is the first and foremost commandment of all who would earnestly seek to know the everlasting Father through Christ Jesus. Well this time! My time and yours dearly beloved is quickly closing yet Jesus Christ is even closer at hand as the one true Lamb of God calls to us ever so softly. What we have heard in testimony through Holy Scripture concerning the One True God is the truth of which we all must personally seek after and know for ourselves individually.

What may I ask is of greater intrinsic value? In what do we believe to be of more importance than the Glorious Eternity awaiting those who finally take the time to experience for themselves that true ecstasy of what real true Love is really all about?

I praise God that you dearly beloved of the faith have forgiven me in my past failures to love! I thank God for those who have remained faithful in absolute completeness of their profession, their love for God and finally for one another. To God be the Glory for the great and marvelous things he has done.

Let now the redeemed of the Lord now say Amen and Amen!

Your Brother In Christ Always,
Christopher A Bryant Sr.
10/17/2008