Jesus Is Super-Convenient!
Sometimes it may seem
to us Christians that the things of the world around us are convenient to our
thoughts, words and actions. We just naturally come into contact with worldly
things every minute of every day. They ARE convenient!
But what we must come
to understand is that these things of the world are EXTERNAL conveniences. They
exist outside of our human bodies and can only influence us from the outside.
As Christians, we have
the Holy Spirit living in us, INTERNALLY, and His function is to 1) comfort us
when the convenient things of the world get to us and 2) teach us about what
(WHO?) is really convenient – Jesus Christ joined INTERNALLY to our human
spirit forever by the fact of our new birth in Him.
Stop and think for a
minute. What is REALLY more convenient – something external or something
internal? Nothing could be more convenient than something (Someone?) we carry
around right inside us every day. Jesus is SUPER-CONVENIENT!
OK. I hear you saying
that you can’t see Him, you can’t feel Him. How can He be super-convenient?
Ah-ha! The very reason
God left you on the earth to continue to live after He made you a child of His
by a new birth in Christ is for you to GROW IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF JESUS’
SUPER-CONVENIENCE!
There is one facet of
mature experience which is often missed, yet it lies at the root of capability
on any level, and no one can be sure of himself without it. Everything in
existence is a system of opposites. Darkness is the absence of light. We have
positive and negative poles. A thing is only a thing because it has its
opposite. It has a right and a wrong and the one has overcome the other. You
cannot say a certain “yes” in a decision until you have first canvassed the
alternatives and said an equally certain “no” to each of them. The strength of
the “yes” is in swallowing up the “no”. And here we have God’s perfect wisdom
in the birth and growth of His children. To have true sons, they must find
themselves in their freedom. They must discover that to be a person there are
alternatives and they must make their free choice – and ultimately their right
choice – through having first made the wrong one and tasted the consequences.
God wants you as His
child to grow into the understanding that, as convenient as the things of the
world may seem to us initially, they can never be as super-convenient as the
guidance and power of Jesus Christ. Every acceptance of things convenient from
the outside of us is used by God to draw us into greater understanding that the
only REAL LIFE is to live by dependence and trust in our internal union with
our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. His SUPER-CONVENIENCE is a Light casting all
else into the darkness of worldly convenience.
posted by Lou Hodapp @ 9:32 AM
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