When we come to Christ, He abides in us. We are transformed. We become a new creation. (2 Corinthians 5:17). We take on the character and the culture of a new Kingdom, the Kingdom of God. There is a sense that we don’t fit. We don’t fit in here, we can’t connect with the world, we just can’t become one-of-them.
I believe every human being is a creation of Almighty God, and as such has a unique purpose, destiny, assignment, or vocation. To know God as Saviour and Lord is well on the way to discovering that revelation. Sadly some do not make that discovery even in later life. In fact I am somewhat concerned at just how many have not found that sense of destiny and purpose.
There’s nothing quite like finding your fit. Finding, being in, and knowing we are doing what we’re meant to do, and we are where God wants us to be. This is a huge subject, but an exciting one.
Jesus never asks us to do anything He has not done, go anywhere He has not gone, including death. That indeed is the characteristic of a leader who people will follow. But first comes the cross. No cross, no crown.
The year 2020 will go down in many of our books as humongous horribelous! A bad memory. Forgettable. I’m sure we found ourselves doing things we didn’t plan to, functioning in roles we didn’t ask for, and having to come up with answers we don’t have, to questions we’ve never thought of.
At the mountain of meeting there is revelation, insight, understanding, and vision. And we all know a God-idea is far better than a good-idea. Sometimes there’s just no other place to be to hear from God. There are many physical places where we can hear God speak to us, but there are times when we just need to get to a mountain, and be with God.
The Disciples Peter, James and John were led by Jesus up a high mountain by themselves, where He was transfigured before them. Sometimes that’s exactly what we need to do. To get away, by ourselves but somewhere away from people and be with Jesus. No distractions. No technology. Just us and Jesus. Maybe a routine reset would be good to do.
Right now, there are many, maybe some of you who are in a very difficult place, financially, with your job, your future, your home, health, relationships, your ministry, everything. This is exactly the time when Jesus and His Word can become everything to us. Instead of the everything getting on top of us, Jesus wants to be our everything!
Crisis’ and change may take things from us. One thing remains though that cannot be taken from us. And that is, our relationship with the Lord. No matter what highs and lows we experience, we will always have the Lord with us and in us. We’ll always have our relationship with the Lord.
"Remember the former things of old, For I am God, and there is no other". The process of remembering what went before is primarily about knowing and believing and experiencing that God is God! The first thing we are to remember is that He is God! El Shaddai!
