Living Super-naturally In A Natural World

My Utmost For His Highest

 

“Do you believe this?” —John 11:26

 

“Martha believed in the power available to Jesus Christ […]  But— she needed a closer personal intimacy with Jesus. Martha’s theology had its fulfillment in the future. But Jesus continued to attract and draw her in until her belief became an intimate possession. It then slowly emerged into a personal inheritance— “Yes, Lord, I believe that You are the Christ…” (John 11:27). Is the Lord dealing with you in the same way? Is Jesus teaching you to have a personal intimacy with Himself? Allow Him to drive His question home to you— “Do you believe this?” Are you facing an area of doubt in your life? Have you come, like Martha, to a crossroads of overwhelming circumstances where your theology is about to become a very personal belief? This happens only when a personal problem brings the awareness of our personal need. To believe is to commit. […] Then, […] I find that faith is as natural as breathing. And I am staggered when I think how foolish I have been in not trusting Him earlier.”  CHAMBERS

 

God uses life to draw us to a deeper understanding of who Jesus is.  Not just factual understanding, but personal understanding .. a spiritual realization … an understanding that allows us to respond to life in a super-natural way.  We tend to trivialize the significance of our spiritual nature.  To speak of the super-natural is not like a reference to Superman .. or some other fictional character.  It’s like Jesus … who command the natural … who created it … (John 1:1-5) “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” A

 

s a Christian, you have Christ and Christ has you.  Like Jesus is one with the Father …  we are one with Him.  What that means is that we have a super-natural ability to deal with life in the here and now.  Just like our life in the “bye and bye” has been determined, our ability to respond to this natural world, super-naturally is possible through Jesus.  There are so many admonitions in the Bible for us to not fear .. to trust … to look to Jesus .. to draw close to God.  That is because our spiritual strength for living the supernatural life is found in that relationship.  What does living in the super-natural look like?  (Corinthians 4:8-10) “We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.” It is about being the furnace and not being consumed, spending the night with the lions, and not being devoured,  being caught in a mighty storm at sea and not drowning, or perhaps facing a heart-breaking problem and not losing hope.  Look to Jesus.  ELGIN

 

Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)

 

Charley Elgin