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The Scriptural Indications.

There are four scriptures that give indications that there is more to life (and with God) than what we’ve experienced or seen:

First, everyone has dreams or desires, and for those who trust and rely on God they have definite requests. No matter how lofty and impossible these are, Eph. 3.20-21 gives indication that God’s power is able to perform beyond man’s imaginations and requests. Paul writing to the Corinthians told them that as the scripture says, "What no one ever saw or heard, what no one ever thought could happen, is the very thing God prepared for those who love him" (1 Cor 2:9 - TEV). Think out of the box when you take your requests to God in prayer and ask for the extraordinary, God is willing and He will make your joy to be full (Jn. 16.23-24).

Second, man’s need is unlimited and enormous, and often when man comes to God with them he would rather see the enormousness of the need than the greatness of God. Paul, while writing to the poor, yet liberal hearted and philantropic Macedonian church, prays for them that God shall supply their need according to his riches in glory in Christ (Phil. 4.19). The implication here is that the workings of God in the lives of His own is according to his wealth, possession, and ability, and not according to man’s need. There is a world beyond what we have as need.

Third, the love of God for his own is unfathomable and beyond description for the natural mind, that what He has in plan is far beyond what we presently see. What we appear to be is not yet the fullness of what we are supposed to be. John the beloved in his old age told the church that “now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears (or when it [what we are supposed to be] is made known), we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.” 1 John 3:2-3 (NIV). The standard for what we should be is Christ or in Christ. If therefore you have seen someone whose stature (person) made so much impression on you that you so much desire to be like the person, good news! There is much more awaiting you in Christ Jesus. Those who desire to fully evolve into that fullness cleanses themselves, that is separate themselves from impurities (which of course cannot be found in Christ), for they stifle the manifestation of all that we are to be in Christ, when they find their place in our lives.

Fourth, there is a reality beyond what man can do, it is God’s ability. Man was endowed with great potentials by God. Being made in God’s image and in God’s likeness indicates that there will be exceptional abilities with man than you would found with all other creatures that God made; and man, of course, has been found with great and impressive feats. From the tower of Babel and other wonders of the ancient world, to both the great and profitable and the wild and destructive technologies of the post-modern world, man’s achievements continue. But with all his accomplishments, there is an extent to what man can do. Jesus said those things which are impossible with man shall with God be possible (Mk. 10.27) if impossibilities have characterised your life experience, it is good to know that such should be put behind for the possibilities to be secured with God or in God.