Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord
READ, LINGER, PROCESS…
As believers in the Church Age, we have the responsibility to carry on the Christian legacy—Christ’s legacy.
Even though sin has a hold on us, Christ, by the indwelling Holy Spirit, has a stronger hold. Praise be to the Lord for that.
We do not inherit our soul. God breathes soul-life into us when we take our first breath; He gives spiritual life at our first moment of belief in the finished work of Christ, His Son.
We were designed by God to respond to God. Therefore, we are, by our fallen sin nature, retaliatory and rebellious. But even more, we become aggressive and self-centered—getters and givers.
Disobedience became a chain-reaction—the opposite of obedience. We are opposite, or contrary, to God as fallen creatures. We are no longer good—we are good and evil.
When we are reborn (new spiritual birth—born again from above), we live exposed to two different natures—physical and spiritual. There is, therefore, a struggle… conflicts continuously between our two natures.
Through the original fall, we thought independently of God, with the result that we will always think independently of God until sin and Satan are destroyed. At the fall, Adam broke through the “righteousness barrier,” only to discover the sin-barrier—the barrier being two-sided: good and evil.
The believer lives with one foot on the good side of the barrier and one foot on the evil side. When Christ consummates history, He will destroy forever, abolish forever, the backside of the barrier—evil. Then, because of Christ, we believers shall live happily ever after.
Amen.
Some may think that I have a compulsion for God. I would agree wholeheartedly. But I ask, can you show me a better compulsion? Never could any subject be as vitally important and interesting as God’s Word. It reveals God’s very thinking—His viewpoint and His Son, cover to cover.
Silence is heavenly. Within it, God has a chance to be heard, for He speaks with silence atomic.
How insignificant we are in the great cosmos; how significant we are in Christ Jesus. He created it all, and I wonder why He even cares.
Jesus Christ is the only person in history that lived before he was born. He lived to be born and save us. We were born to live. Christ died for us, in spiritual death, so that we may live.
Jesus Christ is the everlasting Father—the Father of Eternity. Christ is the Ancient of Days. Christ was and is from everlasting to everlasting. The original Hebrew reveals in the Psalms that Christ is Yinon—Messiah in 72:17. This is the only known appearance of this name for Christ—Messiah. Jesus Christ is the personification of wisdom and truth. Eternal wisdom and truth are a literal person—Jesus Christ. The past is endless, having no beginning, and the future is endless, having no end. Life is always in the present with God.
The Old Testament records the history of God’s creation, His chosen people, and prophecy. The New Testament records the first coming, the life, death, resurrection, ascension, session, and his chosen people for the new covenant—the church—the body of Christ, and the future of all creation. Just as Old Testament prophecy became recorded history, proving God, the New Testament too is full of prophecy that will make the final history and the second coming again prove God and the recorded accuracy of His Word—all for the benefit of man.
The prize of our calling (the Christian life) is the knowledge of Christ. The pattern of the Christian life is humility. The peace of the Christian life is the presence of Christ. The power of the Christian life is the indwelling of the Trinity in us. The power of Christ’s resurrection and the fellowship of His suffering is us being conformed to Christ’s death through the power of God’s Word in us (Acts 14:22; Philippians 1:29; 2 Timothy 3:12).
The semantics of the Bible are inexhaustible—there can be no finality—God’s Word goes on and on and on, forever, just like God.
Want to know God forever? Learn God forever.
All quotes are by C. S. Craig unless otherwise indicated.