Thoughts for another day

April 25, 2008

Today's verse: Col. 2:6. As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

Having received Jesus Christ, we are now not the same. Our life has to change. This change may be fast or gradual but it has to be, for Jesus comes making all things new. If you have been in Him for a while, you will know what I am talking about becoz your life would certainly have been touched by His Presence. You might become more patient or more appreciative or whatever and even if you have many ‘not so nice’ traits of mannerisms, they will change in His coming. It may take years for this to happen (to be honest even I don’t know why it does) but eventually it does.

The power of God is not only for miracles of body and material. Those are necessary and God knows it and He fulfils our needs as He is concerned about us, but God wants that we ask for the power to change because when a man’s soul is purified in the blood of the Lamb, He becomes a citizen of heaven fully, and the courts of the Almighty resound with joy at this conversion. In our conversion (I am not speaking of religious conversion but being born again) the zeal to do His bidding comes into us and for a while, we are ready to battle anything for the sake of Christ. But gradually, it wanes off and we back slide into our old way of life. This is what we need to guard against and therefore we need to walk in Him.

After my conversion happened, I was ready to do anything for Christ. But as years went by, I noticed myself giving more prominence to other things than the things of God. The drive to sin also became stronger and I fell. But our beautiful God picked me up and His suggestion was that I depend on Him thoroughly to remain in His aura of life. When God calls us to an office, it is He who makes us eligible, even if we don’t consider ourselves worthy or are opposite to what we humans consider ‘fit’. He also keeps us in a state in which He may use us and He guards our coming and our going. God is more interested that we remain pure than we ourselves are for He wants us to work for His Kingdom. He can only work through us my friend and bring about His Kingdom on earth. Therefore, we need to remain rooted in Christ and firmly established in faith in Him as we have been taught through His Word. In all this our hearts have to be filled with gratitude for all that He has done in picking us from the muck and giving us entry into His glorious abode.