Back in the 1980’s on a Sunday night Roy
Walker’s “Catchphrase” was essential
viewing, trying to work out the “Catchphrase” before the contestants, consisted
of shouting at the TV with what I might think was the right answer, invariably
it was. Roy
Christ’s death on the cross changed
everything, the Old Covenant laws and regulations were made obsolete and Christ
through his death opened a new and living way to God. No longer was it all about
looking forward to a day, now the day had arrived and God was fully
united with man.
The
Old Covenant had placed great value on faith in God. It laid the burden on man
to put his faith in God. Before the
cross the flow of faith was us to God, but after the cross the flow of faith is
God to us.
The New Covenant is all about God having
faith in me. Christ is my mediator, my great high priest and he has perfect and
great faith on my behalf. I do not have to examine myself to see if I have
faith, as I look and focus on Christ, I live in his faith and he is the author
and perfector of my faith.
My focus is on Christ and in Him I was
crucified. The life I now live is by the faith of the son of God.
I have the faith of Christ living inside of
me, I have His faith and that faith is a free gift by grace.
Christ believes in me, I am holy, I am
righteous, I am sanctified, I am redeemed. God sees me as “In Christ”, perfect
, secure and rooted in the power of the kingdom of God
what a powerful statement to meditate on...that christ believes in us as well....we oft focus on out belief in him but....that is a cool way of looking at it alan
ReplyDeleteWell, that is a different way of seeing what He wants us to see.
ReplyDeleteOkay, I am being compelled to go ahead say it, which I was reluctant to do. For I know just how sincere you are, and I do not want to be appearing to be trying to throw cold water on the fire that our Heavenly Father has kindled inside of you.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, saying that He has faith in us send a very dangerous message. For the absolute truth of the matter truly is that there is nothing good about any of us apart from Him. Now, since that is by His design, we can take comfort in fact that not all of our wrongdoing/sin is completely our fault. More importantly, we can rejoice in the fact that He created each and every one of us to be one of His children by faith and He has always wanted us to spend all of eternity with Him in His Kingdom of Heaven as an heir to all that is His in glory!
If He has not already called your attention to it, Romans 11:32-36 may have the same effect upon you as it did upon me when I "just happened" to stumble upon it (AGAIN!) 20 some years ago. A considerable part of that experience was it being as if I had never seen that passage before, and I had read the Bible completely through five times before the age of 18, as well as pastored a small Southern Baptist church for two years!
For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all. Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?” “Who has ever given to God, that God should repay them?” For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen. {Romans 11:32 NIV}