Following on from yesterday morning's post, we will take a few moments to address a very important issue. In this world much emphasis has been placed on feelings, but the LORD has warned us of this grave danger when it comes to our spiritual life. When we take Him at His word we are not to expect the accompanying feelings that the world (and religion) has taught us to expect with miracles from the supernatural realm. “A life in Christ is a life of restfulness. There may be no ecstasy of feeling, but there should be an abiding, peaceful trust. Your hope is not in yourself; it is in Christ.” SC 70
All that Christ will do in and through you will be nothing short of miraculous and supernatural but He has not promised that you will feel any immediate difference, in fact, to continually analyse our “advancement in the Christian life” using that method would make us evolutionists and not creationists, e.g. “And God said, let there be…and there was…And God said, Let there be…and it was so.”
“Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil? Jeremiah 13:23. We have all realised that it is totally impossible for us to just push aside our “heredity and cultivated tendencies to evil” and to change our sinful behaviours, but we hear Christ speak those powerful words of hope, “but with God all things are possible”. He is wanting us to have the faith, His faith, that rests, trusts, abides in Him, depending on and knowing that what He has said He will do — He will do!
After taking many, many years to “get it” the “father of the faithful” (and his wife Sarah) finally “believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness”. When it comes to our personal trust in Christ for salvation from our sins, we will live every moment “Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of ” the 2nd coming, when “we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye…and this mortal shall put on immortality…The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Philippians 1:6; 1 Corinthians 15:51-57
