January 6, 2012
You’ve Got It…Let’s Use It
A great reality for any Christian man or woman is the fact that they stand out in the world.
Colossians 1:27 says: “To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
Yes, Christians stand out and believing Christians really stand out. God never intended for men and women who have the spirit of God in Christ in them to just be a part of the population of this world. The world, as beautiful as the scenery may be, is a mess because the Devil has inspired people who love his kingdoms to make it ugly.
The God Who created the heavens and the earth is the same God Who put the spirit of God in Christ in anybody who makes Jesus Christ Lord in their lives and believes God raised Him from the dead. Unfortunately, there are millions of people in this world who have done just that who haven’t any idea of what they have spiritually.
In John 14:12: Jesus Christ declares, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.”
Imagine being able to do the works that Jesus Christ did. It’s available. And Jesus would have been the first person to tell you that it takes believing. Jesus Christ was the greatest believer of all time and we have the faith of Jesus Christ which makes it available for us to believe as He did. Now it is available, from the Day of Pentecost on to this moment.
There is some work to be done, however. The Adversary couldn’t stop Jesus Christ from doing what he did, because he believed to do it and God backed him up. Jesus Christ knew about the methods of the Devil, which is to steal, kill and destroy.
The majority of Christians today do not know about those methods because the people who teach them don’t know and a many of them don’t believe or care. Knowing those methods is important so as not to allow the Devil to steal our peace and the reality of our righteousness from us with his distractions.
God has made us righteous and beautiful in His sight. He knows every hair on our head and every thought in our hearts. He made us originally, and He made us to have fellowship with Him.
Ephesians tells us in 1:3 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:”
God has blessed us with all spiritual blessings. Now the work begins and it’s fun work. It’s not a burden and it shouldn’t be a burden; it’s physically and spiritually rewarding. We’ve been relying on our senses all our lives, so making the transition from the physical to the spiritual is a big leap, because you can’t see spirit. It might be challenging for some people, but even so, the reward is sound mental health. When your mind is healthy and sound, how rewarding is that?
The reality is we can talk to God and God can talk to us. God loves that. One of His greatest joys is to have fellowship with His children.
1 John 1:3: “That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.” Fellowship with God is a great key to mental and physical health.
We read that God blesses us with all spiritual blessings and part of that is knowing who we are in Christ and that’s a whole lot better than what we had without Christ in us. We can worship God in spirit and in truth. That is something Jesus Christ could not do, because it was not available. That alone should make you very excited.
With Christ in us we can deal with the darkness of this world. Ephesians 6:11 tells us, “Put on the whole armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” “Wiles” are devices. God’s Word will teach you about those devices and how to deal with them. James 4:7 tells us, “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
God’s Word tells us these things so that we can determine our own destiny. That destiny should be a wonderful and true relationship with our heavenly Father. So you see, we’ve got it and we should want to be the believers who, like the seed that fell on good soil, bring forth as much fruit as we possibly can.
There are too many avenues of activity in the world that make fun of the one true God and dishonor the things that He’s made available to us. The title of the song, “We’ve a Story to Tell to the Nations” is right on, because the nations start first of all with you and then your next door neighbor and then your everyday friends. So we do have a story to tell to the nations. It’s so true. We’ve got it and we need to use it.
Thanks for reading. Respectfully submitted. Will Grove