Brother James
Beloved of All
Following Jesus is the hardest thing in the world. Take up your cross he says. And I follow him. But what a wonderfull savior we have that he helps us to carry that cross. There is nothing in life whitout him.
But make no mistake following Jesus truly makes the world our enemy. For he was not from the world. Neither are we who follow him. But therefore I deligth the hardships. And as he was hated then why not us who follow him. And in my weakness his glory grows greater. How I am thinking of myself. If I was thinking of myself I would walk away from Christ and go the worlds way. Infact I would take my life I knew not the Christ. There is no merit I can hold. Even my faith is a gift and grace of God.
2. Corinthians 12: 1-10.
12 I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord. 2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows.3 And I know that this man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows— 4 was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell. 5 I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses. 6 Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say, 7 or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
Very True is the Word of Jesus! Did I actually boast of my self? Did I say I had power in myself? No, I don't believe I did that unless you would care to point it out just in case I might have? It took a great while for God to work in me to bring me to today and yet it wasn't that long at all in the eyes of Christ, nor mine as today is here! Is your life your's or is it Christ's to do with as He is pleased? If it is Christ's life why not claim His Promises over yourself? When are you going to be the righteousness of God in Christ and claim it?
If I share something that I did in and by Christ, who gets that Glory? Is it not Christ who gets our Glory and our Praises for doing through us? If I help someone or bring someone to salvation, didn't Christ actually do that through me? Doesn't Jesus deserve our praises and thanks for the things He does through us?
Didn't Jesus say that He gives me favor in the eyes of my enemies? If I have that favor then is it my favor, yet what is in that to brag about other than something Christ does for me, through me and in me as His and yet a part of Him? Can God put the fear of Himself that is in me in someone else? Yet who is that fear really towards? Is it not the fear of God that lives in me?
So I brag of the Almighty God, The Lord Jesus Christ that lives in me, isn't that instructed to us to brag of Christ? if God is for me can you be against me?
If we only knew that we could have walked on the water and parted the waters with the faith the size of a mustard seed yet we didn't use it! Lord Jesus bless me to walk in Your Power, to walk in Your Strength and do the things Jesus did and does in and through Christ! Amen! Thank You Lord Jesus! Glory to You Lord Jesus!
By the way, I hope you don't think that I was putting you down for that was not my intention.
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