The Son of God is and always was very God of very God. The set time came when His Deity was incarnate in the humanity of the newly (Luke 1:31) arrived Star, which was being carried in the borrowed womb of a young virgin girl. How was Jesus, in His humanity, able to live a perfect holy life? Because God gave Him (John 3:34) the Holy Spirit without measure. How come? Because Jesus was always available to God without measure. The Holy Spirit never gave Jesus power - - the Holy Spirit of God Himself, this Person IS THE POWER. The Holy Spirit is (Romans 8:2) the Spirit of the Life that is in Christ Jesus.
The Almighty Holy Spirit of God is Himself, His Person, the very God of Power within us to reveal the glory of God in our lives through (Colossians 1:27) Christ in us.
Since Pentecost we do not follow Jesus. This reality truth is beyond comprehension that now the God of all power walks in my shoes. My desire and prayer is that I will walk always in heart-to-heart oneness with Him. Do we even begin to grasp the glorious relationship God intended and made available for redeemed sinners He created through Redemption. He made that relationship possible to every person who trusts in Jesus Christ as their Saviour and Lord. I am filled with wonder that God is so transcendent, completely Sovereign, beyond all contact, at the same time so near and dear, so precious and personal. Our new Life in Christ (2 Corinthians 9:15) is God’s indescribable free gift and precious beyond telling, in the deepening of our knowing Him and our priceless relationship with Him. All thanks and praise be to our God both now and forever for the continuing riches of His free Gift.
(Oswald Chambers) “No power on earth or in hell can conquer the spirit of God in the human spirit. It is a positive crime to be weak in God’s strength.” In the impossible situation of my everyday daily life, the muscle of God’s strength is displayed in the showcase of my weakness. My faith never even dreams that the Lord will ever let me down or leave me in the lurch. Jesus is my wonderful Lord, my beloved Master and the all-wise reigning King of my life.
If we truly love and obey the Lord Jesus, God will increase our kingdom authority, which enables us to do (John 14:12) the greater works by our prayers. We cannot, ourselves do anything to improve our Christian life. It must be Jesus Himself living His very life, not a copy of it. His life being lived by Him in and through us right now. Our new life (Romans 6:4-5) which never existed before His all-conquering Resurrection. God has all the wisdom to know what is best. He has all the power to do what is best. He has all the love, so He always does what is best in the lives of His children.
It is better to want what I don’t have than to have what I don’t want. Only God knows what is best for us. It is wisdom to accept everything that comes from His hand because we know that His purpose in everything He does in our lives is beneficial to us. To forgive is not easy but it becomes much easier if we grasp this truth. God could have prevented that hurtful offense against us from happening. The fact that He allowed it proves that He has a purpose for us in it. What, actually, is forgiveness? It is to take on ourselves the wrong, the suffering, the penalty results caused by that person as if we ourselves was responsible for it. Forgiveness is to set the offender free. This is what Jesus did for me on His Cross. He took all my sin against God and all my deserved penalty on Himself then He paid for it all with His acute suffering and anguish and I was free of all charges. We who have been so freely forgiven must forgive as Jesus did.
Jesus said that (Matthew 5:13) Christians are the salt of the earth. But if the salt has lost its (Luke 14:34) saltiness, the salt of obedience in our lives, we are as tasteless as the (Job 6:6) white of an egg without salt. The unsaved people around us will have no taste for the words of eternal Truth we speak. if they are not salted with obedience and seasoned (Colossians 4:6) with God’s Grace. They will have no appeal to needy sinners.
We know that we will never be perfect until we see Jesus (1 John 3:2) but we can have a perfect heart, pure motives and holy desires which are the manifestation of the Holy Spirit. I think God is more concerned with our actual motives and desires than with (James 3:2) our unintentional stumbles.
Paradise, which was also called (Luke 16:23, Luke 16:26) Abraham’s bosom, was the temporary place for believer’s when they died. A great gulf was fixed to separate it from the place of torment for the unbelieving dead. There was no possibility of travel from one place to the other, but the inhabitants of Hades could hear from and see into Paradise. This added to the torment of the foolish choices they had made on earth. When Jesus rose victoriously from the dead, He lifted Paradise up to (2 Corinthians 12:2) the Third heaven, which is God’s Home. His triumph which is displayed not only in the empty tomb but also in the permanent citizenship for believers (Philippians 3:20) in heaven where we will be forever (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17) with the Lord. Every person who has received the Lord Jesus Christ as personal Saviour and Lord, should be so filled with thanksgiving and praise to God that there will never be any room in us for complaint, worry, fear or doubt. Any of these negative feelings can strike us unexpectedly but they cannot linger if we truly believe in the Sovereignty of God. He is the God of loving-kindness, tender mercy and never-failing compassion.
Jesus is my wonderful Lord, my beloved Master and the all-wise reigning King of my life. I borrow a line from an old hymn to say that - - - “I walk and I talk with the King”.