Fear not - Enjoy Close Fellowship.

Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. Isaiah 43:1

When the sinless Adam and Eve walked in the Garden with the Lord God, what sweet fellowship they must have enjoyed. What agony when they were banished, given hard work to do, and set to understand pain and suffering.

Eve became the first mother to lose a child, and was the first mother of a murderer. I wonder how she felt about being unable to return to the place of peace she and Adam had known before temptation and sin entered their lives.

When the serpent said to Eve, “You will not surely die,” in his temptation to have her eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the devil, satan, was showing his deviousness for the first time, and he hasn’t changed.

When the angels gathered in the presence of God as we read in the first chapter of Job, satan was amongst them and said he had been “roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it.” He still roams, and has the same evil intent, to entice us away from our close relationship with our Heavenly Father.

Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 1 Peter 5:8

God knows, even allows the temptations, yet still longs for close fellowship with his children. He made a way back to intimate communication through His Son and calls us by name to enter into a relationship with Him that includes two way conversations.

No longer do we have to employ the services of a priest to intercede for us, and plead our case. The High Priest Jesus has done it for us. In order to maintain the relationship we can enjoy because Jesus came, bringing comfort and love, and best of all, restoring sweet fellowship with Father God ,we need to proclaim our victory. ---for everyone born of God overcomes the world [and it’s temptations.] This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. Who is it that overcame the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. 1 John 5:4,5

If we are keeping short accounts with God, maintaining our fellowship with Him, satan has no unsettled claims, his hands are tied, his lies are limited.

I thank the Lord for sweet fellowship with my Heavenly Father. How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! 1 John 3:1

Be thankful --- Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom --- Colossians 3:15,16

We are so privileged, that as brothers and sisters in Christ we can communicate with each other according to the wisdom received in the Word of God.

Be blessed in Him.