September 9, 2014
There is a
story of two donkeys strolling in Jerusalem few days after Jesus had rode into
the city on a donkey, when one of them said, “Just yesterday I was passing here
carrying Jesus and everyone was singing and I was even stepping on their
clothes…..and today, not even one of them recognizes me. The second donkey
smiled and looked at him for a while and then responded, “My friend, in this
world, you are nothing without Christ.”
I am sure you would agree with me that wherever the
President of a nation choses to live in automatically becomes a Presidential
Villa. It is not about the house, it is about the person staying in that house.
The moment Christ stepped into Peter’s ship, the ship became fruitful and the same
person that had toiled all night without catching anything caught so much that
his net started tearing apart. It means that with Christ in you, lack and want
disappears and you start swimming in overflow.
Christ cannot be in you and at the same time
sickness be in you because there is no union between light (Christ) and
darkness. Col 1:27c, says, “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” In order words,
there is neither anything called hopeless case nor anything called shame when
you have Christ in you because greater is He that is in you than he that is in
the world.
However, you have to play your part by opening the
door of your heart to Christ before He can be in you. Rev 3:20 says, “Behold, I
stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I
will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” Christ is interested
in dwelling in anyone (the tired, the depressed, the sinner, the wearied, the
grumpy, the frustrated, etc) but we must be the one to say, “Lord, come dwell
in me.”
Remember you cannot have Christ in you and be
experiencing crisis. Be wise!
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