Acts 17:28 For in Him we live and move and have our being (we exist).
Have you seen that invisible thread some manufacturers use for certain clothing? When the cloth is pulled in any direction you can just about see the thread holding it together. It's incredibly strong because it's made of nylon instead of polyester or cotton which break more easily.
In the same way the Holy Spirit is the 'invisible' thread which holds us together as we live in God. We live our lives, we move around and have our very existence in God through the amazing Person of the Holy Spirit. I've heard Him referred to as the Muscle of God.
The reason we don't break is because Jesus was broken for us. His shed blood paid the price to redeem us from the curse. He took all the pressure of Hell itself, all the destruction, all the disease, all the sorrow and griefs which want to rend us apart through our lives but when we're in Him bound by that invisible thread of the Holy Spirit we are held strong and steady.
So when we feel like we're being pulled in every direction, when the enemy puts strains and stresses and pressures of any kind on us to try to break us, we can know we will overcome because Jesus has already taken all the pressure, every terrible thing in His own body on the tree and defeated it so we can be delivered from all the work of the enemy.
When our eyes are focused on Jesus and His finished work we can enter that 'rest', in Him, and know the Holy Spirit is holding us together with great strength, with His supreme power that raised Jesus from the dead. What an awesome God we serve.
So don't ever say I'm falling apart at the seams. No, be encouraged today, you are being held together by the Holy Spirit of God Himself because you belong to Him, you live and move and have your very being in Him. When your eyes are on Jesus you already are an overcomer. Hallelujah.
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