Category: Daily Thought

The blood! The same blood that saturated the dirt at the foot of the cross about two thousand years ago is as fresh and powerful today as it was when it left Jesus' body.

The blood! The blood that can change a dead and dying entity into a vibrant spiritual and eternal being gives us the ability to dwell daily in the presence of our magnificent God and Father.

The blood! The substance that confirms the unbreakable, eternal covenant God made with man through Jesus Christ. This unbreakable covenant is God's promise and assurance that He will never leave us or forsake us.

The blood! The blood of Jesus! The eternal blood!

God—the real God, not the small God we have manufactured in our little minds—spoke the vast universe into existence. He took dust, formed it, simply breathed into it and it became a living being. He went from an eternal place of wonder to dwell with people who hated Him, all so that those same people could be with Him forever.

That God—Who could have simply gone about His own business—chose to share Himself with us.

WOW!

If difficult times are really refiner's fires used by Father God to purify and refine His people, why would anyone want to pray them away? What kind of heart would not want to be the best they can be so the Lord is glorified?

I guess there is an element of the Christian body that avoids any kind of discomfort or inconvenience, but that doesn't work when the Word says that if we say we abide in Him, we are to walk and conduct ourselves as He did. He went to the cross, a pretty brutal place, for us. It seems right to embrace the training we need to help us have that kind of heart.

Because of our surrender to the Lordship of Jesus and being made new spiritual creatures, our privilege is to observe all that comes our way from a spiritual perspective. We are to look past what we see with our eyes and zero in on what God is doing.

So, what do we do with the loud voices that proclaim supposedly wise stuff with great zeal? We go to Father God and make our home in the spiritual kingdom of heaven with Him, as we wait for opportunities to help those who don't know Him.

As things unfold and opinions run rampant, it is paramount that we as believers do not lose our focus. What are we called to do in this world? Who are we to become for a world that is wide-eyed with fear? Where are we to really focus so that we walk in wisdom rather than theory? How do we become equipped to not only weather the rising storms, but to quiet them by the power of the Holy Spirit?

His Name is Jesus and He is still Lord over everything! We know it; now we have a chance to live it out loud over the deafening noise of half truths and opinions.