But you, beloved, building
yourselves up on your most holy faith… —Jude 20
“We do not need the grace of
God to withstand crises— human nature and pride are sufficient for us to face
the stress and strain magnificently. But it does require the supernatural grace
of God to live twenty-four hours of every day as a saint, going through
drudgery, and living an ordinary, unnoticed, and ignored existence as a
disciple of Jesus. It is ingrained in us that we have to do exceptional things
for God— but we do not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things of
life, and holy on the ordinary streets, among ordinary people— and this is not
learned in five minutes.” CHAMBERS
Supernatural living in a
natural world. That is what we are born
again into, a supernatural life. Does
that language seem strange when you read it?
(Galatians 2:20) “I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet,
not I but Christ lives in me. And the life that I now live, I live by faith in
the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.” The supernatural life is one that is totally
dependent upon the One who saved us. For
most of us, the events that we face in life are not any different from those
the people around us who are living natural lives. We face the same
things. Do the same things. Work in the same places. Suffer through the same tragedies of life. But
that is where the similarity ends and the difference begins. The difference between the natural and the
supernatural, the Spirit of God. You,
Christian, have at your disposal the power of the Almighty. You do not have to face this life alone. You have the power to stand when others
fall. You can endure with confidence when
others wither under the pressures that this mortal life brings. And why so
confident?
(Romans 8:31-39) “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He
who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He
not also with Him freely give us all things? Who will bring a charge against
God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; who is the one who condemns? Christ
Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of
God, who also intercedes for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ?
Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or
peril, or sword? Just as it is written, “For Your sake we are being put to
death all day long; We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” But in all these things we overwhelmingly
conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death,
nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to
come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be
able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” That’s why !
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