Is He Always With Me?

And lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. --Matthew 28:20

I often say that I am preaching my own funeral, and this article will be one such time! I am always confronted with my own unbelief and inability to get the first things right. There are so many passages that need believing before we go on asking for more and attempting to understand more. We obsess over our past. We remember the hurts. We are “dealing” with them. We are struggling. We wish for a different past. Millions are spent on various coping mechanisms for the aforementioned, but in all of it we are avoiding a fact of faith:“If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation.” We do not believe we are new creations. We want the feeling of it, the absence of memory, and something special. We want the fact of it without faith! Again, all that a believer wants, he has already been given, for the Lord has given us EVERYTHING pertaining to life and godliness. However, if we work for what we have by faith, we lose it. God is with us always, and yet often a busy mother, missing her quiet time, believes He is not with her. Many have not read their Bibles, attended church lately, or perhaps have fallen into the bad deeds of the flesh--or worse yet, the good deeds--and these all believe that He has left them. Is He with us always? Where do we stand in these things? So many spectacular meetings take place to convince us in the flesh of what only faith can assure us, that He is always with us!

“He is always with us” is not just a simple statement that has little relevancy…it is an astounding truth of great impact!!!  Think about this: IF your earthly father could have completely lived inside you, gone with you everywhere you went, you possessed his soul (mind, will, emotions), and he had the power to impact every decision and action you ever had or took...  Would life been different?  Do you think he would have impacted your life?  IF you as an earthly parent…  Do you follow my thinking here???

Isn’t it amazing…God indwells every Believer.  His Life is “there” wherever we are.  And to live His Life through us is what God wants to do through our life.  And there is no way He is not “there” wherever the “there” is.

But, how about being given “everything pertaining to life and godliness”!?!  I have seen many who don’t believe this…don’t believe this?  God has said it is SO.  Christ’s indwelling has given us ALL this.  It comes with possessing Him!

We need to quit working “for what we have by faith” (or, have been GIVEN!).