Monday, May 1, 2017

That we might be filled with all the fullness of God.

  God created man with enormous capacity, but no ability.  God made our humanity weak.  Everything else God created, He created it sufficient in itself, able to do what it is called to do by drawing on what is inside of it. God did not make man that way. God made man weak, with all the capacity to contain God, but none of the ability to fulfill our purpose.
  Our purpose is to be the expression of God, to make God visible, so that God might reach out and touch others through us.
  Part of this process of becoming like Jesus is learning to stretch with God. If God reaches out to touch this dark place here, can we reach with Him in us that He might touch it though us?  When God crushes Satan, can He do it under our feet? You see, God cannot fulfill His purpose without us. God’s purpose is to reveal Himself to creation through us, He cannot do that without us. God’s purpose is to conform us to the image of Jesus Christ.
  Our role is to believe what God says, that God fills us with His power. Our fight is not against our human weakness.  We do not try to “fix” ourselves.  Paul said, I boast in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
  Consider Moses. Moses thought of himself as a frightened little man. Weak.  God said, “Go down to Egypt, I am with you.” Moses said, “Ah, ah, ah, send someone else, you’ve got the w-w-wrong guy.” And Moses carried on with that until God became angry with him.
  When Moses went to Egypt he didn’t do anything, except one little thing. He didn’t even talk; Aaron did the talking. Moses was a pretty limited fellow. What did Moses do that was so great?
  Moses had a little stick that he could put up in the air and wave back and forth.  He could do that little thing, and that is all he ever did.
  Can we do that? Can we put our little stick in the air and wave it back and forth?  Yes, we can. Moses did the stick thing; God did the rest. Moses raised his stick; God did the stuff. All that happened in Egypt, God did, but He did it when Moses raised his stick.
  Can we raise our stick? You see, it’s not up to our being a great one, to our being strong. No! You and I are weak, that is our glory. We raise the stick; we can do that. We believe what God says, and God does the rest.
  When Jesus said, He that believes in Me, out of his belly will flow rivers of living water, does that mean that we have to be this great healer, capable of miracles? Absolutely not! Jesus said “Believe in Me.” I can do that. I believe in Him; He does the rest. He just wants me to believe that He will move through me.
  The river is not up to me. The river will flow. All I do is believe what He says.  God will give me the simple thing that I am able to do.  And that little thing I am able to do will be different from the little thing you are able to do.

- Daniel Yordy

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