In case you haven't heard, there is a war going on....and we are in it. Heaven and hell are duking it out for individual souls. It isn't a pretty sight at times.
Faith is tedious and tough. It isn't for church sissies. Sometimes I forget.
I find it at times to not be so easy to be us or to be around us. We can be a beautiful sort. And then we can also be the bungling kind. I have traits of both.
One thing rings true for each encounter that challenges. The resurrection of Jesus back then impacts the strain of our world that we face now. We live in resurrection power; so let's behave like we know it.
Sting and death cannot put us away for we have already voluntarily died at the cross with Jesus. We will come through every skirmish because He conquered the biggest one.
Everything is to our advantage. We don't live perplexed or stumped. Even if death tries to shut us down, we will see it is turned to our advantage. Consider Paul's attitude:
For God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. He went on to say that we may find ourselves hard pressed and even perplexed. Yet, we will not live in despair.
This is the fascination of the resurrection power from which we operate. You can't put us away. We live in life and we will keep living through death.
Therefore, don't let the hangnail stresses of being hard pressed and perplexed steal your day. Each matter fades under the bright face of Jesus. We can, after all, even survive us!
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