JESUS - THE
DOOR TO THE GLORY REALM
Jesus gives us access
to God’s presence, love and blessings
through His Blood. As we return to God
through the Blood of Jesus we enter the realm
of God’s presence-, which is the Kingdom
of God. Jesus’ Blood and Person is
the Door to the kingdom of God. “I
am the door; if any one enters by me, he will
be saved, and will go in and out and find
pasture.”(John 10:9)
Many have been taught
to simply believe in the forgiveness of sins
and return to their own life – with
their “accounts settled”. The
gospel is so much more. We are called not to
stop at the Door but to go through it (Him)
into a living relationship with God the
Father.
Jesus, Our Good
Shepherd, invites us to go through the Door
opened by His Blood into fellowship with God,
the Father, and to live the rest of our lives
in God’ presence.
It is time to cultivate a
fuller awareness God’s presence and ask
that our spiritual eyes and ears be opened to
see and hear more clearly. We are to live in
the conscious presence of God, celebrating,
receiving and transmitting His love and mercy.
Jesus says, “Make
your home in My love”. (John 15:9)
This dimension of free access to God opened
for us by Jesus is the glory, which Jesus
speaks about in John 17.
“The glory
which You have given me I have given them
that they all may be one, Father as I am with
You that they world may believe that You have
sent me and have loved them even as thou hast
loved Me.” (John 17:21-23)
Paul refers to the
glory when he says, “all have
sinned and fallen short of the glory of
God”. (Romans 3:23) The
essence of the fall is not so much that we do
evil things but that we have become separated
from God’s presence. Adam and Eve in the
Garden of Eden we recovered in the glory
until they lost it through sin and
independence.
The purpose of the Atonement is not only to
pay for our sins but also to bring us back to
the realm of the glory – the realm of
God’s love and presence. This atmosphere
is now opened up to all through faith in
Jesus. Man fell short of the glory but now
through Jesus we can return to the realm of
the glory for which we were created. As a
fish live in water, and birds live in air,
the proper realm for humans to live in is the
glory – the realm of the Father’s
love and Presence.
Salvation is not just
a matter of going to Jesus –the Blood
spattered Door, but going through the
door to the realm of heavenly places. It
is not simply sins forgiven by the Blood but access
to God’s presence permanently and
continually through that blood. It is
living the rest of our lives in the presence
and mercies of God. We are to return to the
realm of the glory to which we have access
and live there. Though we live on earth our
lives should center not on the things of the
earth but on the Presence of God and the
realm of the Father’s love, glory and
presence, which Jesus opens for us.
We live in two worlds
but our main focus should be on the unseen
realm. “Because we look not to
the things that are seen but to the things
that are unseen; for the things that are seen
are transient, but the things that are unseen
are eternal.” (2 Cor 4:18) Let us
take time not just to make your requests
known to God but to live in Hs presence, soak
in His presence, enjoy his presence and let
Him reveal Himself to us.
We don’t have to
wait until we die and go to heaven to live in
heavenly places and live in intimacy with God.
Let’s not stop short at the Door but go
through it (Him) and let the Spirit lead us
into ever increasing discovery of the heights
and depths of God’s love.
“We all now
with unveiled faces beholding the glory of
God as in a mirror are being transformed into
his likeness 
from one degree of
glory to the next.” (2 Corinthians 3:18)
