Monday, April 11, 2016

Is Your Life Giving The World A Glimpse Of God's Glory?

My Utmost For His Highest
 
If we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection… —Romans 6:5
 
“The Spirit of Jesus entering me rearranges my personal life before God. […] I can have the resurrection life of Jesus here and now, and it will exhibit itself through holiness. The idea all through the apostle Paul’s writings is that after the decision to be identified with Jesus in His death has been made, the resurrection life of Jesus penetrates every bit of my human nature. It takes the omnipotence of God— His complete and effective divinity— to live the life of the Son of God in human flesh. The Holy Spirit cannot be accepted as a guest in merely one room of the house— He invades all of it. […] He takes charge of everything. My part is to walk in the light and to obey all that He reveals to me. Once I have made that important decision about sin, it is easy to “reckon” that I am actually “dead indeed to sin,” because I find the life of Jesus in me all the time (Romans 6:11).“  CHAMBERS
 
“I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me.  And the life that I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me.” (Galatians 2:20)  Someone at work asked the question “Does the Bible say that a Christian cannot be cremated when they die?”  So I answered with a question, “Does the Bible say that a Christian cannot be eaten by a shark or alligator or die in a house fire or plane crash?”  I told them that thinking like that was an attempt to limit God.  If God can speak the universe into existence, why would we think that God could not raise us up … (read 1 Corinthians 15:12-57 for insight into the resurrected body)
 
Very often we try to understand spiritual truth in terms of our physical existence.  There are certainly parallels, but the spiritual can only be understood by revelation of the Spirit.  So, while we live this life on earth, we have a physical body, subject to everything associated with a fallen world .. good and bad .. At the same time, we have the Spirit of God in us, connecting us to the heavenly.  I don’t think that we will forget about this life when we are in heaven.  The Bible is not clear on that … but seems to me it would have been a lot easier if God had created us in heaven, and skipped this mess.  But He didn’t.  He created us in His image, giving us the ability to choose.   And when we choose Jesus, He gives us a mission … to tell others and give the world a glimpse of His glory as we live out our lives by faith.  Can you see why personal holiness is so important?  If all anyone every sees in us is the world … what good is that.  If we sin and by sinning encourage others to sin as well, we are doing exactly the opposite of what God commissioned us to do.  We are showing the world, nothing more than what we were saved from .. and not what we were saved to.  ELGIN
 
“Not My Will”  Maranatha Music
 
“In this uncertain hour, I come before Your throne.  My spirit is willing to obey, but my flesh is weak
Oh my Father, if there be any way to remove this trial from me. Nevertheless, not my will but thine be done.
 
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Christ who delivers me
In my hour of need, it’s Christ who strengthens me. Christ who delivers me, Christ who heals me
 
My soul is sorrowful, even unto death. Oh my Father if it’s possible, let this cup pass from me
Nevertheless, not my will but thine be done.”
 
Charley Elgin

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