Seed for Dec 2

Being a Christian is not about “acting” or “pretending”, or “trying” or “doing”, but it is about “knowing”. Paul put it this way:

Rom 6:3
3 Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
(NIV)

Rom 6:6
6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin--
(NIV)

In simple terms: We were crucified with Christ, we died with Him to break the power of sin in our lives! That is a “truth” revealed in God’s Word, that we rarely hear preached, or taught. Why? It is rarely taught or preached either because of lack of knowledge or lack of faith. Once we see the “truth” in His Word and “reckon” it so, and put our faith in that revealed fact, then we operate under the power of God in us. It now becomes Him in me, the risen Jesus, living in me, planted by faith, and growing up into Him in all things! (I am to grow up into Jesus in all things, the Bible says) When I see me dead to sin, Him alive in me, then it is His power in me, transforming and empowering me, to live! I live, yet not I, but it is Jesus in me. The question is not will power, but “source”. Is it me living, working and doing, or is it really, as the Word declares, God in me? If it is God in me, then the power of the Universe is resident in me. If it is only me, then my faith is useless and worthless.
Be blessed.
Billy and Jan Wells