There is SO MUCH in this verse!
I came across it while doing Priscilla Shirer’s
Armor of God study this week. I’m not even going to lie, it’s one of my favorites.
I am passionate about what this verse tells us, and I desire deeply for every
person to understand these words are for them. Not simply to read, but to live!
See, I think that’s one of our problems with the Bible. We
read it like we would other books. A good story. A fix-it manual. Or several
auto-biographies rolled into one. We keep a safe distance, a third-party
participant if you will, from the words on these pages…but the Bible is a
living, breathing, powerful weapon full of truths and actions for our lives
today!
The Bible was meant for us to know God intimately and, by
extension, to change our lives radically. Those words on the pages are his very
breath. They are filled with power. And they are ours to experience in a very
tangible way. Oh, how much we miss in our lives when we think it’s simply ink
on a page.
Simply look at this verse. Once we understand that it’s our
to live, we can begin to let it transform us. First, we have hope to which he’s
called us, meaning when we call on him we are saved. Redeemed. Free from our
sins. Free. Now that is hope.
But he doesn’t stop there. He has an inheritance for us.
We’re not talking monetary, no, we’re talking riches like mercy, grace, wisdom,
joy, peace…life changing riches that are ours because we now belong to him.
Even better? The verse goes on to one more. Possibly the
most important for us to grasp. His incomparably great power resides in us.
Listen to that! It’s the linchpin of our Christian lives, people. The same God
who raised the dead lives in us and has given us access to that power through
him. This verse doesn’t say we are waiting for it, it says it’s already ours.
So why do so many of us live like we’re more of a watch
battery than a power plant? There is nothing satan can throw at us that the God
who lives in us can’t defeat. We need to start behaving like the God who raised
the dead and called dry bones to life is the same God who is IN us. We need to
believe the Bible is active and not black ink on paper thin pages.
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