Thursday, May 14, 2009
"Lord, above all else I want to follow You, but I confess that it is sometimes very hard to go where my human nature resists going. It is here that I need an extra measure of faith in Your watchcare, and I am believing that You will not fail me. Amen"
SEIZURES!
Then seizing him, they led him away . . . Luke 22:54a
Then seizing him, they led him away . . . Luke 22:54a
Dear friends and followers of Christ Jesus:
How can God be "seized" by mere men? How can mere men resist being seized by evil? In this triad, we mortals are the underdogs, and it is to this hour that Jesus surrendered His human body. Where we resist going, Jesus went willingly to be ravaged by mere men who gave no mercy, but some of whom would later seek His. Peter, the man, resisted going to where his human nature feared to go. Later, Peter, the Apostle, lead believers to the cross of Jesus, and to the manner of his own death, seized by the Lover of men's souls.
Salvation could be seen as a matter of seizure and surrender. There are only two possibilities! Only a God who vicariously experienced human failure can break the grip of the flesh, and Jesus was the One. When we surrender to Him, the sounds of the rooster crowing start to fade in our life and loves. It happened with Peter, and it will for us, because we are loved. Meanwhile, Satan stays busy, attempting to wrap us into immobility with very little wiggle room. I remind each of us that "the principal work of Satan is to convince saved people that they are lost, and lost people that they are saved."
This is a call to rejoice in freedom and hope, wrapped in the trustworthy love of God!
Lowell Martin
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