By : Ps Ely Lingao
The Christian life is a life of victory, joy, peace and purposeful living. Jesus said, “I came that they might have life and might have it abundantly.”[John 10:10b]
Our confidence is not in ourselves. Our confidence and trust are in the true living God whom we love, worship and serve.
There are many professing Christians who are defeated and discouraged and do not realize the need of giving God time and their inner being daily for His Spirit to renew and sanctify.
Jesus made it possible for us to experience God’s love and forgiveness. He has given us the Holy Spirit to enable us to live victoriously in the midst of the struggles and trials we all face in our everyday life.
As we discover who we are in Christ, we will value ourselves more highly and will have a quiet assurance of who we are. Yet this should not lead us to become focused on ourselves. On the contrary, this should free us to be able to forget ourselves and choose to love and minister to each other. With a deeper understanding of who we are in Christ, we’ve seen how we can be set free to love others unconditionally and share the gospel with them more effectively. God’s love for us is unconditional. This is the same love that God commands us to demonstrate in our relationships with others. Although this is impossible by our own strength; by faith through the power of the Holy Spirit, we can love others with God’s unconditional love.
We learned the role prayer must have in our lives if we are to grow in our relationship with God. We must learn and understand how much we need each other’s fellowship and encouragement as we face the hindrances and challenges in walking closely and consistently with Him.
It’s only as we walk each day in the power of the Holy Spirit that we can say like apostle Paul, that we consider everything else in life as a loss in comparison to the to the joy of knowing Christ and making Him known.