WE HAVE JUST BEGUN
Many today question everything. Is there a God? Does God care about us? Can we know God? Does God deal in everyday concerns. For those of us who are Christians, the answer to all of these questions is YES! God has made a way for us to know Him and a way that we might have life through Jesus Christ. By looking at Jesus, we know what God is like. And so this post is for my fellow Christians.
As Christians, not only do we believe that Christ demonstrates the essential characteristics of God, but also that he spoke the words of God, did the words of God and was in fact the Living Word of God.
God did not just send Christ and leave us–but God through Christ still works with us today through the work of the Holy Spirit who conveys to us the mind and will of God among other things.
The work of Christ was to reconcile man to God. In the life and death of Christ, that work is complete. This work of redeeming man through the sacrifice made by Jesus for us was approved by God through the resurrection of Christ. That is an essential of our faith.
In another sense, the work of Christ continues throughout history, through you and me. The work of the Holy Spirit on earth continues to draw men and women to Jesus so that they might have light instead of darkness and come into the very family of God.
You and I, with all of our failings and flaws, are privileged to participate in God’s continuing work of reconciling man to Himself.
As believers and followers of Christ, we are called to do the things that Jesus did. Like Jesus prayed, we pray. We help people be set free from the things which bind and imprison them. We preach the good news of Jesus Christ, and we bring healing.
When Jesus was on the earth he was limited just as we are individually. He was only at one place at a time. He walked from place to place. He had only 24 hours a day to work just like us. And yet just before Jesus was crucified he promised that he would send the Holy Spirit to be with and to guide his people.
Further, Jesus gave us this promise: “Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father”.-John 14:12 (NIV)
We who are followers of Christ, the church universal, will do what Christ did. Jesus did miracles. We will do miracles. Jesus prayed and saw healing. We shall do the same. We are Jesus people. We do Jesus things. And if we believe the words of Jesus, we shall even do more and greater things.
Jesus moved in faith and in might. We too move in faith and might. There are many evils in the world out there. The church is just beginning to stand up in America and really be the church. We are joining with our persecuted brothers and sisters in the rest of the world as our country races to dispose of its Christian heritage and join in the ranks of those countries which have become not only materialistic but godless. Things are changing and they are changing very rapidly.. Where the church has slept and become debilitated, we are becoming strong through Christ and the work of the Holy Spirit. Our future is bright. Our fight has just begun. Our strength is returning. Once again we be a light in the darkness and a haven for those who seek rest, peace, salvation and the very presence of God. Our future is good.
