1 Cor 6:14
14 And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power.
It appears that the more you press onward toward this upward call of God in Christ Jesus the more God reveals to me the weakness and frailty of my own strength and power in this world. We are raised to problem solve and find solutions to life's challenges and roadblocks in our life. Some would even call this gaining knowledge and applying wisdom to overcome life's obstacles. From the moment we take our first breath we start a journey of trying to figure out problems in order to overcome them and survive them. Many of the great books hinge on the hero or heroin being able to overcome an insurmountable obstacle in their life and journey. But there are certain challenges in life that seem insignificant in the early stages of our life's. This is because these obstacles don't present themselves to us at first. Instead they are distant and almost abstract ideas. But as you grow older these obstacles begin to loom on the horizon, and what seemed like small shadows cast by twigs become larger and large shadows cast by what appears to be immovable mountains. There comes a time in life that you realize that you are heading straight toward these challenge and there is no other direction to turn to. Now this is where life's lessons, school of hard knox experiences, and all the street wisdom you attained and mastered in your fruitful youth doesn't seem to be adequate in the face of these giants. Even as they grow ever closer and larger in size with each day that passes in my life I find myself grasping the reality that what is approaching is unavoidable. This is when I begin to gulp as my once strong knees begin to buckle, and the courage that once gave me the strength to stand in the face of world now flows out from melike water. So here I stand. Facing the inevitable forces that have the power to ovecome my life. What can I do? At first I begin to grope for answers to what is coming. Then I begin to frantically find solutions to overcome or circumvent the finality of my future. Yet nothing in me seems to comfort me and all the solutions I resort to through my own intelligence, innovation, creative inspiration falls lifeless in the midst of such a daunting problem. All that is in me fails to give me the strength or power to solve this problem. My own power has been eclipsed by the power of my enemy that is rising in the horizon of my future. I have only two choices or directions that I can take. I can turn back and return to where I started this journey or move forward and take my stand before the giants waiting for me knowing that my defeat is sealed and certain.
Then I turn my face toward Jesus and see Him standing up from His throne moved with compassion and stern determination. His eyes fixed on this enemy that has entered into His creation and stands between Him and His people. That is when I see Jesus mission and work so profoundly deeper then what is displayed in His earthly miracles or even His passion. For I see a King who has arisen from His throne to engage in a battle against the enemy that destroys and kills the life that was created by God. And when this King stands before this enemy His power will be demonstrated in all creation to once and for all destroy the work and power of our enemy. So the King of King came to earth with the intention to defeat the enemy and destroy the power of death that stands before me.
And how did this great and might King defeat the enemy and manifest the power of God? It was in Jesus Christ TOTAL ABANDONMENT. For he loved not His life even unto death, even the power of death on the Cross. Jesus came to stand before our enemy and swallow up death in His own death. He abandoned His life unto to the Father for He Trusted that His Father would raise Him from the dead. Now I see the solution is not in me but found in Jesus Christ who is the power of God. You see how powerful the work of Christ was, not in His miracles, but in his death. You see the author of life had to abandon His very nature in order to allow death to defeat Him. Then once death had conquered Jesus and completed its final work the Father could manifest His power in raising Jesus from the dead. Once God's power raised Jesus from the dead and seated Him on the throne for all of creation to witness death was finally defeated. The enemy that I onced feared has be defeated.
If I am to overcome this enemy that I am going to need the power of God working in me. For the power of God to work in my then I must turn my life over to Jesus Christ and give it over to Him in TOTAL ABANDONMENT. Death is waiting for me and its power is greater then I. But there is a power greater then death and it is the power of God. It is now in Jesus I place my hope and trust in the face of my future foe who has the power of death and will on day triunph over me. But it will not be able to enjoy its victory, because I trust in Jesus Christ, the same power that raised Jesus from the dead will raise me also unto life.
Rom 8:11
11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
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