Please note. The extended definitions of the Greek words are in parenthesis.
John 1:12--KJV--But as many as received Him, to them gave He power (power of choice, the liberty to do as one pleases) to become (to come into existence, to begin to be) the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name;
13--Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14--And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory (opinion, judgement, majesty, splendor), the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
The more I delve into the Word of God, the more it delves into me. The more I seek the face of God, the more He calls me to hoist anchor and launch out into the deep. The more I pray and study the more I since an excitement in my spirit about the greater things of God.
I find myself getting so bored and disgruntled with the way most people "have church". It's the same thing Sunday after Sunday. You can count on the same amount of songs taking the same amount of time and there is obviously going to be a sermon of some sort and possibly some type of altar call. And, if you're very, very, lucky and everybody and everything works out just right God MIGHT get a chance to move. To say the least it is boring to the max.
Look at it from God's point of view. I cannot begin to elaborate how much He loved us by sending His Son to bring us into a strong and endearing relationship with Himself. He wants to talk to us, to walk with us, heal our sick, save our lost, bring homes together and much more. Yet, we cannot find enough time in our busy schedules to allow Him to work. We are much too busy telling Him that we've got to control it all. Our church services are built around what WE think God should be doing.
In verse 12, those of us who have received Jesus Christ as our Savior have the power of choice to become a child of the Living God. I am convinced that God meant for the big turn around in our lives to be just the beginning and not a stopping point. Yet most of the Christians in this world have a nominal relationship with Him that is not very far from where we were when we first got saved.
I firmly believe that we, as individuals have the 'power of choice and the liberty' to become closer acquainted with our Heavenly Father instead of remaining a nominal Christian. I believe that God never intended for His children to 'just barely make it in' and then stop. In John 14:12, Jesus told His disciples that they would do the same things that He did and then went on to say that they would do even greater things. From that statement alone we can deduce that God expected His children to grow up to be strongly anointed world-changers and not just mediocre pew-sitters.
In my last blog I challenged my readers to stay before God until the light came on and God began to reveal Himself to us. In verse fourteen we find that those who spent time and fellowship with Jesus began to see His glory. They began to see what God's opinion about a Christian life was. They began to see that God wanted to manifest His goodness and His majesty and His splendor among His people.
I want to see what God has in store for His people. His Word says that there is life-changing, sickness-healing, devil-destroying power in store for those that follow Him. I personally don't know of any church around Savannah that continuously has services where the glory of God is the normal. However, I won't let that stop my quest for what the Word of God tells me is the 'normal' for a child of God.
I've hoisted my anchor and I have set sail for God's normal. Come sail with me.
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