You Can't Do It!

Thinking about our last teaching at 2nd Vision, and the importance of "walking as Jesus did"... asking ourselves "What Would Jesus Do?"... and being "little Christs" in our workplaces, in our shopping, and at home...

It is a tall task. Jesus tells us "be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect." (Matthew 5:48, NIV) And when he says that, he's wrapping up a talk on loving your enemies. Man, how on earth do you do that?

On our own, we cannot do it.

However, when you made Jesus yours by trusting in Him, by surrendering to Him, you also got a Helper.

I want to quote Jack Taylor in The Key to Triumphant Living (page 41):

There is a simple secret to the Christian life. It is, in fact, so simple
that millions miss it. There is a dynamic so mighty that no life can
remain the same after discovering it. Paul called it a "mystery which hath
been hid from ages and from generations, ut now is manifest to his saints" (Col.
1:26). It is THE SECRET, THE KEY, THE SUPREME DYNAMIC, THE GLORIOUS SECRET of the Christian life. I bless the day I began to see it!
True Christianity is simply, "Christ-in-you-ity" and "Chrsit-in-me-ity."

How do we access that power of Christ in us for living?

Do we really know that "I think I can" is not good enough? Are we really ready to turn over the control of our lives to Jesus? "Jesus, I'm yours. Teach me. My time is yours. My stuff is yours." And then are ready to respond to Him by doing what He's showing us to do? (I gotta give the credit to Dann Spader & Gary Mayes - this is basically the process they outline at the end of their helpful book Growing A Healthy Church - KNOW, YIELD, and RESPOND.)

May God bless you as you day-by-day ask Him for His help.