Monthly Archives: July 2010
Identified With Him
These days we hear so much talk on our identification with the resurrection of Christ. We say, Lets move ahead. The cross is not the place to stay. We are now identified with His resurrection. We have to stay at the Throne and not at the grave. It is all true. But how have we forgotten that we have to always bear about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. Without a dying there is no resurrection. Without surrender there can be no faith. It is only when we let go that we let God. Dying we live and losing we gain. If we are so full of ourselves, how can we allow God to fill us with His life? Yes, it still hold true – you have to carry your cross and bear the sufferings of Christ for His life to radiate through you. Let us never remove the cross from our Christianity for that is where all that is ugly about us is taken away so that in the resurrection all that is beautiful in Christ may be ours.
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Faith Is An Act…
We may believe and we may agree and we may even confess all night and day but until we act, faith will not work. Faith is belief plus action. You have the assurance and then you show that you really have the assurance by acting on the word of God. Faith says, If you believe, you will act. You have to act to make your faith real. What is it that is hindering you? What is it that you fear? You have to act on your faith. Faith sees the invisible and makes it visible. It just does not happen all in the mind. You have to act on your faith. You have to do what you normally would not do. You have to act. You are not becoming an actor but you act on what you believe is true as shown to you in the word of God. If God’s word says that you are a child of the light, it is time to act as one. We have to keep our eyes focussed on the truth and have an attitude of contempt for our circumstances. Our circumstances will change as our faith increases with each step and finally becomes perfect. Faith is based on the facts of the word of God but it is expressed by our actions. We have to step on the water before we can walk on it. Put your full weight over the troubled waters and you will see your faith in action. It is like the Apostle James said, Faith without works is dead. Faith is an act.
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