November 14, 2018 THE SAME POWER
Romans 8:10-11 “And if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. But id the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who indwells you.”
Romans 6:4 “Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.”
Do you feel really alive? Without even realizing it, we become so accustomed to the routines of life, that we may find ourselves just going through the motions of life more or less on auto pilot. I can vividly remember as a young boy the absolute joy and excitement of getting up early on Saturday mornings and heading into the woods with my trusty BB gun to spend hours rambling and hunting. In that time of my life, as I am sure it was in your life, life was one big adventure-even school! That life was not a result of knowing Christ as Savior, but it does serve as a picture in the natural of even a greater life that is available to us in Christ. Becoming a believer, being born again, is a ‘spiritual’ experience for sure, but the consequence or result of being joined to God impacts, or should impact every aspect of our life, including the physical-and that is the point I want to address in this blog. It is my desire that we can, with the Holy Spirit helping us, come to understand and to experience life to the fullest, life over-flowing day by day. I understand that we have difficulties to deal with in life and I know that life is not one big ‘happy’ experience, but nonetheless, we can know and we can experience life to the fullest. Life is life. God is unlimited, God is life, God is creator; God is not bored and He does not expect His people to live in boredom or a ho-hum experience. We have been joined to the Creator of the universe, and because He lives in us, we are not limited by time or by the circumstances of life. His presence in us gives a totally new perspective to life, even what we might call the mundane part of life. It may sound absurd, but something as simple as having a cup of coffee or mowing the lawn can take on a sense of being engaged in real life-all because it is in His presence that we live and move and have our being! No longer do we have to ‘endure’ life-life now becomes a blessing-even the difficulties. Even problems can be a blessing; for example, if you were drifting at sea in a life raft for weeks, you may think how wonderful it would be to be back at home changing a flat tire-or some problem---not a great example, but you get the point-it’s a blessing to have a flat tire to change. In Him, we can embrace life as it comes-the difficult and the good-knowing that He has a purpose in all that we encounter. I am just saying to us, let us lighten up a bit, throw off the stress, the boredom, and the ‘life in the rut,’ and take on the life of the overcomer that we are because of His presence in us. It’s true, we do have only one life to live on planet Earth. Just think-the power that raised Jesus form the dead lives in us! Because of that, we can walk in newness. Do not wait on God to zap you. He has already done what He needed to do in order for us to have life-your part is to believe it and to claim it as yours. More on this in the next blog.
John 10:10 “The thief cometh not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy. I came that they might have life, and may have it abundantly.”
Blessings,
Buddy
Romans 8:10-11 “And if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. But id the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who indwells you.”
Romans 6:4 “Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.”
Do you feel really alive? Without even realizing it, we become so accustomed to the routines of life, that we may find ourselves just going through the motions of life more or less on auto pilot. I can vividly remember as a young boy the absolute joy and excitement of getting up early on Saturday mornings and heading into the woods with my trusty BB gun to spend hours rambling and hunting. In that time of my life, as I am sure it was in your life, life was one big adventure-even school! That life was not a result of knowing Christ as Savior, but it does serve as a picture in the natural of even a greater life that is available to us in Christ. Becoming a believer, being born again, is a ‘spiritual’ experience for sure, but the consequence or result of being joined to God impacts, or should impact every aspect of our life, including the physical-and that is the point I want to address in this blog. It is my desire that we can, with the Holy Spirit helping us, come to understand and to experience life to the fullest, life over-flowing day by day. I understand that we have difficulties to deal with in life and I know that life is not one big ‘happy’ experience, but nonetheless, we can know and we can experience life to the fullest. Life is life. God is unlimited, God is life, God is creator; God is not bored and He does not expect His people to live in boredom or a ho-hum experience. We have been joined to the Creator of the universe, and because He lives in us, we are not limited by time or by the circumstances of life. His presence in us gives a totally new perspective to life, even what we might call the mundane part of life. It may sound absurd, but something as simple as having a cup of coffee or mowing the lawn can take on a sense of being engaged in real life-all because it is in His presence that we live and move and have our being! No longer do we have to ‘endure’ life-life now becomes a blessing-even the difficulties. Even problems can be a blessing; for example, if you were drifting at sea in a life raft for weeks, you may think how wonderful it would be to be back at home changing a flat tire-or some problem---not a great example, but you get the point-it’s a blessing to have a flat tire to change. In Him, we can embrace life as it comes-the difficult and the good-knowing that He has a purpose in all that we encounter. I am just saying to us, let us lighten up a bit, throw off the stress, the boredom, and the ‘life in the rut,’ and take on the life of the overcomer that we are because of His presence in us. It’s true, we do have only one life to live on planet Earth. Just think-the power that raised Jesus form the dead lives in us! Because of that, we can walk in newness. Do not wait on God to zap you. He has already done what He needed to do in order for us to have life-your part is to believe it and to claim it as yours. More on this in the next blog.
John 10:10 “The thief cometh not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy. I came that they might have life, and may have it abundantly.”
Blessings,
Buddy
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