“For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.””
—Matthew 18:20
Jesus made a promise with this condition:
If two are more gathered in My name, meaning for the purpose(s), and for the pleasure of His position / office / station (Messiah),
Then, we are granted His power.
And, He, Jesus, is in the midst.
Therefore:
1. I will seek out and connect with people who are operating according to His purpose(s).
2. And, I will expect Jesus.
He is there because He said He would be.
There, I will tune my heart to His presence, so that I may see Him, hear Him, feel Him and know Him.
To do that, I must not harden my heart by embracing this world, by accepting the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and instead become as a little child who knows nothing and look to my Father and learn of Him for everything.
“Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”
—James 4:4
We can’t have both. We must chose where we will ultimately put our trust. A double-minded man gets nothing.
I must distrust this world -that is, divest, take my trust out of the identities the world tries to give you, out of the things the world treasures, and out of the meaning or meaninglessness the world proclaims.
“let God be true but every man a liar”
—Romans 3:4
Instead, I must, invest, put my whole trust in Christ and trust Him to define my identity, to treasure what He treasures, and to trust that His purposes are true, will not fail and is what life is all about (meaning).
Then, I will be able to see Him more clearly.
“For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.”
—1 Corinthians 13:12
On a related aside, in a Christian home with a husband and wife, those are two, so there should be three. Jesus should be in every such home.
Where two or more are gathered in His name, Jesus is there in the midst.
We can do more than “know about” God.
We can know God.
We can be sense, experience and be with God!
I can see Him if I want that more than anything. (Matthew 10:37-39)
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