I’ve been criticised
for being too soft and emotional, and I know women pastors who’ve been criticised
for being too firm, too hard, and I wonder, where does this criticism come
from. It actually doesn’t matter where it comes from. But there is a perception
that any and all of us are unbalanced. Of course, that’s got to be true.
But it’s not how God
sees us, and isn’t that an important distinction?
When we see ourselves
lowly, others, at the very same time, are seeing something else; some people
are seeing us as God sees us. We don’t always find out. They don’t always speak
up. It’s good when they do.
Then, we could just
believe God, who thinks we’re tremendous. Without doing anything as far as a
good work is concerned, God sees us through the lens of His Son.
We could focus on
the naysayers or we could focus on God’s wonderful redemption in His Son, and
on those genuine Christians (and others) who are for us.
We know the fact of
Jesus’ resurrection, don’t we?
If we believe the
Christ died on the cross and rose again in a manner of life that He has now
promised to us, we have an obligation to live that life, now first and foremost,
before it becomes an eternal reality.
Resurrection
requires belief. We must believe Jesus was resurrected before we can partake.
And we must believe His resurrection is available to us. There, in that belief
place, is the power for resurrection. We make it happen, because it has already
happened; Jesus, our Precedent.
We must believe
before we can be resurrected. Our belief must mount up on the ride of faith to
take us all the way to the resurrection circumstance in our situation.
That is, to access
the infinite power of the Holy Spirit which resurrects our hope, we must
believe God is able and will do it.
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