Thoughts for another day

April 29, 2013.

Today's verse: Gal. 2:20. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.  (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

Accepting Jesus Christ in earnest belief as Lord and Savior means fusing into Him; a union which leaves nothing apart…a heart beating with the heart of the Lord, when we can feel the breath of God upon our backs and sense even the faintest whisperings of the Holy Spirit.  This union deflects all the attacks of the evil one and makes his temptations tepid and ineffective because when a man is fused with the Lord, then the will of the Lord is witnessed in his life.  

We must know that when we’re fully for the realization of God’s will in our lives, then the walk up the narrow path though fraught with danger, is yet pleasant and safe, for His Holy Spirit, our Most Beautiful and Awesome Partner is too involved with us to let go and allow danger to trap us.  No power on earth can compare with His power and no power can fell us when we’re under His power. 

The best the Holy Spirit does for us is keep us focused on our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and Jesus becomes real to us even as we see ourselves walking and talking with Him as He is baptized in the Jordan or as He reaches out to the leper to heal him or as He stands up for the woman bent for 18 years, healing her on a Sabbath.  Further, we even take the bread He gives us at His last supper and walk with Him with a heavy heart toward Calvary, though not in the open, fearing for our lives and then raise our eyes in disbelief and awe as He shows Himself after His resurrection and finally, see Him as He ascends into heaven in the sky, brighter than the sun; and slowly we ponder on all His Words and empowered by His Spirit are raring to go with His Good News to a lost and depraved world, bankrupt of mercy and goodness. 

It’s then that we will echo in our hearts the Word of Scripture today, calmly saying, I live, yet not I, but Christ in me, when the world seems pleasant and a field of God and men seem but our brothers and sisters who we’re meant to serve and uplift.  Into this world, we will be transported with our brother and Savior and God, Jesus, to live and breathe Him every moment.