Be careful to be anxious for nothing. There are many
voices cluttering for our attention but only one that really matters above all
else. Listen attentively for this voice. A small, still voice. The voice of
power, wisdom and peace.
It is no mean feat to keep your eyes focused on Jesus
when the flesh, the World and the Devil are all trying to pull you away from
him. Yet we are not alone in this battle, because yes, a battle it is. Every
day from the moment we wake up to the time we lay our heads down to sleep is a
fight. The good word says ‘Fight the good fight of Faith”. Let us be clear to
identify our enemy. He is cunning, a master deceiver who would have you believe
he does not exist.
We have with us a comforter, our helper and teacher
whom the Lord Jesus promised he would send to us. The blessed Holy Spirit. He
is the power of God and this is his age. Through him, the Lord Jesus lives in
us and we are reconciled to the Father. He illuminates God’s word for us,
intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express (for we know not how we
ought to pray), and guides us. Through him, Christ lives in us so that the word
comes to life that states ‘He that lives in you is more powerful than he who is
in the world.’ We need not fear, for ours is not a spirit of fear but a spirit
of Power, love, and of self-control (Discipline).
The moment we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and
savior we are considered a new creation (see Second Corinthians 5:17). We pass
from the kingdom of darkness into his Kingdom of light. When we have Jesus, we
have life! For before coming to Jesus, the sentence of death hangs over our
heads. ‘For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in
Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 6:23).’ Jesus is the key. He is the ‘Way, the
Truth and the Life’ (John 14:6). There is no other name under Heaven given to
men by which we may be saved (Acts 4:12).
In the new life in Jesus, there is no condemnation
because the law of the spirit of life sets us free from the law of sin and
death. Jesus Christ, the righteous one, met the righteous requirements of the
law sin on the cross (He is our sin offering) and so condemned sin in sinful
man. We now live according to his spirit.
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