"All or Nothing" -3

"For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not His saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off." (Psalms 37:28) Servant is a term that presents several different levels of relations; there are those that deal with humility, and the obedience required for servitude; and there are those which involve security, and the preservation from the Master. The point that the Lord has pressed upon my heart, has more to do with the security part of the relationship; and it includes obedience as the response to that security, not for the security. The work that God has done in us trumps anything that we could ever do for Him; He has taken a broken and rotten thing, and He has made it new and fresh; which is far greater than anything that we might do in return. That said; we have the obligation of being this new creation in Him, where we must be obey Him out of the desire to obey Him, regardless of our failures, because He has put that desire in us when He changed our heart. Basically, what that means, in case you might have missed the point, is, if you do not have the desire within you to please Him, then you need Him to change your heart! The Master is on your side, and regardless of your failures, He looks at the desire of your heart and your desire to please Him; at the same time, He preserves us as His servant based upon that desire to be His servant, because there is nowhere else we want to be, and nowhere else where we are secure. Paul, when writing that famous verse in Romans 7:15, which says, "For that which I do, I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I", he bases the conversation upon a heart that desires to do what is right, and to not do what is wrong; in other words, there is a presence within us that makes us want to please God, and that presence is the Holy Spirit which has been birthed inside our hearts. The desire that we have been given is that which drives us to be obedient, regardless of our failures in doing so, it continues to strive forward to obey; that is what a changed heart looks like. Add to that the forgiveness of sin, and you have the following famous verse which covers all... "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." (Romans 8:1)