“For in Him we live and move and have our being.” Acts 17:28
You’ve made a deal with Jesus so what is the reality of walking with your Creator?
The reality of the cross is giving up your life for the life of Jesus. When you make a decision for Jesus, you are inviting Him to have authority over your life. At this point, God can do with you as He pleases. Your life belongs to Him.
The Cross takes away your individuality and you lose all sense of your privacy. Your life is now an open book to God and to those people around you.
God is in control of your life and He wants you to live with Him without questioning the outcome or purpose of His actions.
The heartbreaks in life are to mold you into the likeness of Jesus and teach you to abide closely in Him. Your steadfast faith in the Living God will give you the ability to overcome the worst the world can send your way.
As a believer, the world fades away and your priority becomes to live for God. The challenges of life lose their intensity as you experience the nature of God. You understand in the depth of your heart “I can can do all things through Christ Jesus who gives me the strength.”
The process of sanctification is not for you. It is designed to transform you into a new person with a “Christ like” personality which will appeal to those around you. You have been created in His workmanship to do great things in the kingdom of God.
The purpose of God is to get you to the point where the only thing that really matters is to live in oneness with Christ Jesus.
If you choose to fight with God and resist His authority, He will engineer new challenges to get your attention and cause you to surrender to the work of the cross. Or, you will just drop to the bottom of God’s list and He will allow you to suffer through the trials of life.
The abundant life does not come to you out of your works; it comes to you out of your faith and obedience to God.
The ideal Christian life as defined by religion is a mockery to God. Jesus wants you to trust Him in every aspect of your life regardless of how many challenges he brings your way. This is how you can please God!
You cannot impress God because you are a “role model” Christian and do good deeds. The rewards from God are dispersed to you because you live by faith and build your life around the promises of Christ Jesus.
He alone is worthy of your praise!
Hal Hollister Ministry 