Part 16 - Your Life A Miracle

The true life of a genuine Christian is miraculous. What defines a miracle ? It is something that happens for which there is no possible explanation except God ! The Lord Jesus reveals to us that our Christian life, if it is genuine, cannot be explained apart from Him. He says of us, "Without me you can do nothing." What He expects from you is not the sensational or the spectacular, but simply the miraculous, which you experience by faith.

How do you walk by faith ? By exposing every new situation to the Lord Jesus who, as God, lives in you through the Holy Spirit - every threat, promise, opportunity, responsibility, problem, no matter what. Stand back and say, "Thank You for all of this, Lord Jesus. Thank You for what You will do so that I can live miraculously. You have been waiting for me to be available so that You can live Your life through me, which would otherwise be utterly impossible for me." Giving thanks in this way is the evidence of true faith.

Then, every step you take, every word you speak, everything you do, everything you are, is an expression of the Son of God living in you. It means letting Him think through your thinking, letting Him react through your reactions, letting Him decide through your decisions. You discover that the Life you possess as a born-again Christian is "of Him, through Him, and to Him" every moment you are on earth.

You may be thinking, "If such a life is totally of Him, through Him, and to Him, then where do I come in ?" You do not. That is just where you go out ! God credits only one Person with the right to live in you, and He is Jesus Christ; so reckon yourself to be dead to all that you are apart from all that Christ is, and alive only unto God in all that you are, because of all that He is (Romans 6: 4-11). It is for you to be; it is for Him to act. Rest in Him, fully available to the saving life of Christ.

Why do so few Christians enjoy this miraculous resurrection Life ? Mostly because they are educated out of it. They are taught to repudiate the indwelling presence of a risen Lord, and instead they are told to do their best for Jesus, to copy His example, to flex their own spiritual muscles, to stand up and be counted, to clench their fists and throw out their chest. They are taught everything except to repent and to recognize that you and I were created to be inhabited by our Maker. They are taught in prayer to beg and say "Please" instead of "Thank You" as they relax and rest in Christ.

Let us constantly and at all times offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, which is the fruit of lips that thankfully acknowledge and confess and glorify His name. Hebrews 13: 15 (amplified)