Sincere Truth

Ever increasingly across the pulpits of American and even within the most respected of churches, I hear leaders proclaiming that victory is found in believing in Christ.  Yet scarcely is there ever mentioned how we obtain that victory in Him.  We are implored to run; yet not shown that it is not we who are running, but merely the vehicles in whom Christ within us runs. We are told to shed that which hinders us, but not that it is in Christ and our life now hidden in Him, in whom we may cast off that which would hinder us. There is a time for milk and there is a time for solid food and though we should never despise the milk; we are also called to encourage those around us to seek the reality of the work of Christ as it relates to our spiritual walk in Him. If we are to grow we must partake the spiritual food that is provided to us as we commune with Christ in the outpouring of His life made manifest in us.

It is a burden upon my heart to which I have been called in the proclamation of the gospel, never to deviate from that gospel made alive in me, by the power of His spirit in me. That we might now and always rest in what He has accomplished, walking in His will for us, and standing firm even when the world collapses around us; in the hope that is found only in Christ. That together in Him we might know the abundance of life and power of His spirit living in us. Living not for ourselves, but for Him; that His grace and truth may be made known in the hearts of all who would hear as to the testimony of what God has accomplished for us in Him. This same testimony is professed in the great cloud of witnesses, who beseech us to walk as they did in obedience to the will of God for them, by faith in the One who came that all may have life.

Everything pertaining to life eternal has been supplied to us in the finished work of Christ and can be known by us, if we would strive to let Him live in us and lay hold of His claim upon us as to our very source of life. That we may truly be fitting lamp-stands from which shines forth His light. The lamp-stand does not create the light, but is the vessel in which the light can be displayed. Likewise we shine as He shines within us; may we now and forever more let Him live in us and be the Light, which brings life to this world.