Colossians 2: 13-15 NLT …Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. 14 He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. 15 In this way, he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross.
We know that when the disciples saw Jesus on the Cross it looked like total defeat, the destruction of all their hopes and dreams but as we read today’s verses, God saw it as total victory because He could see what they could not, He saw into the spiritual realm.
He saw all the record of our sins being nailed to that Cross, being wiped out, taken away forever. He saw all the spiritual rulers and authorities being shamed publicly by Jesus’ victory. He saw sons and daughters being welcomed into His family, made righteous by the blood of Jesus.
Each time we look at the Cross we can ‘see’ it through God’s eyes. Wonderful freedom for each one of us, the destruction of Satan’s power and authority over us, the eternal hope of heaven, and Jesus being raised to the place of highest honour in Heaven.
Yes, there was defeat at the Cross, but we know it was Satan’s defeat, not Jesus’ and it changed the shape of history for all the ages to come. We have a wonderful message to give to the world, the message of the Cross, the message of repentance, reconciliation, and deliverance by our victorious King, the Lord Jesus.
And I felt the Holy Spirit was saying that when we look at something in your own lives and it looks like a defeat, remember to ask the Lord for His perspective first, and let Him show it to us in the spiritual realms in case we might just be looking at it only from an earthly perspective.😊 Amen.
Waoh thanks Jackie .Lord in your perspective I pray to view eve8
ReplyDeleteThank you Jackie for reminding us of how wonderful our God is, in Jesus name Amen!
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