"Full On - Towards Him"

"For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious." (2 Corinthians 3:11) I can see that maybe the thought I had in this may have been lost in the analogy of the husband; but the point I was making, regardless of what our current culture is bent towards, is that the heart of a man must change. For a husband, it is the love he shares with his new bride that changes his heart; there is a completion that has taken place in his heart by the joining together with his wife; thus the reasoning behind: "For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh". What I was focused on was the relationship between the man and the woman (with or without the Lord being involved, that would be a separate issue); but just in that relationship, there is a change that must take place in the heart of the 'man', as the head over the woman (regardless what our current culture may dictate), he must be changed; and my deeper point in this matter was that it is the 'woman' (his bride) that changes him. Now then, for our relationship with Jesus Christ: we are changed by Jesus; given a New Life in Him, which is not really comparable to that which I just illustrated above, but is very similar in the manner of change. This New Life we have in Christ is based upon a completion which takes place in our hearts; where once we were separated from God, because of sin; but now completely joined to God, because of the blood of Christ. Just like the husband looks towards the bride that he has been given as a rudder for his heart, so too, we are to look towards our Lord and Saviour as the 'Way', which is our heart's desire. And just like the husband is joined together with his wife as one flesh, so too, we are joined together with Jesus as one in the Spirit. Which means this: the power we have to change our hearts is given to us by Jesus Christ, and the transformation which has taken place in us by our relationship with God and the fact that we are complete in Him. (I still do not know if I have made my point!) In the opening verse, there is a point made that is in relation to the 'letter' (meaning the Law), and the 'Spirit' (meaning the New Life in Christ), and there is a contrast which is made about that which was taken away, and that which remains. If, that which was taken away (which was the Law), then that which remains is the Spirit of the Living God (because of Jesus Christ): We are Complete in Jesus; so we must turn towards and follow Him; Full On!!! "Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to think any thing of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life." (2 Corinthians 3:5 & 6)