Word for the Day March 19 Wednesday
By: Evang.
Cascille Hammack
"That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection,
and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death...I count not myself to have apprehended: but
this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press
on toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." Phil. 3:10-14
We are living epistles bringing forth to men the knowledge of God. There is no standing still with the Lord, we are
to press on for a fuller power of the Spirit and press for the prize ahead. The journey with the Lord is onward and
upward, never stagnant and still.
Abraham came out from Ur of the Chaldees. We can never enter the
new place of blessing God has for us until we come out from the old place. We must leave our old lives behind and
put on the new life God gives us in Christ Jesus, which is an onward and upward march.
When
Saul of Tarsus first met Jesus on the road to Damascus, he asked, "Lord, what would you have me to do?" He
desired only to do the will of God and in this place of intimacy he found the place of power and deep crucifixion. He
kept his eyes on the prize ahead, always pressing forward in what God was doing.
If you feel
you are weak today, know that the Lord delights in showing His power in your weakness. It is in the places where we
feel powerless that God can show forth His glory and His resurrection power. Paul pleaded with Jesus to take a
thorn from his flesh in 2 Cor. 12:8, but the Lord replied, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made
perfect in weakness." Paul then said, "Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so
that Christ's power may rest on me." In verse 10 Paul went on to explain, "That is why, for Christ's
sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then
I am strong." This is opposite of the thinking of the world and the flesh as all life in the spirit is opposite
of that thinking. We must ignore the lies of the world and live by the living Word of God, always walking in the Spirit
and not after the flesh. We must stay on the road of the upward call in Christ Jesus, never forgetting we are living
epistles written to the world. We are vessels filled with the resurrection power of Jesus, if we hold onto the
Word of life and giver of life, Jesus and never give up.
