HAVING A RIGHT PERSPECTIVE

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.

This is a picture of a block of flats with balconies seen from immediately below instead of from a distance. Depending on where we’re seeing things from, our perspective can be a bit ‘off’, and it’s good when someone comes alongside and helps us see our situations the way God sees them.😊

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.

THAT SETTLES IT!

Psalm 119:89 NKJV Forever, O Lord, Your word is settled in heaven.

Do you ever dither over a decision? You can’t make your mind up about a situation but then something happens, or someone says something, and it swings it one way or the other! It settles it once and for all!😊

Well, God wants us to be like that with His Word. He wants us to say, “If God has said it, then that settles it for me. I’m going to stand on His Word no matter what! No matter whether things change, whether I feel any different, or whether everybody says I’m crazy to believe it, I’m going to go with what God has said. God’s word is settled in heaven and if it’s good enough for heaven then it’s good enough for me.”😊 

God says He has put His word even above His name (Psalm 138:2), and there is no name higher than His (Philippians 2:9-11). He says He upholds all things by the word of His power (Hebrews 1:3) and that His word will never return to Him empty, without bearing fruit (Isaiah 55:11).

I wonder, how much credence are we giving to God’s word today? Does it uphold our personal world? Does it have first place in our thinking, in our heart? Is it settled in our hearts that God’s word is His bond, His covenant and He does not lie, or are we still dithering on the fence?

When we tell someone something and they don’t believe us, in effect they’re saying our word is not to be trusted, and they dishonour us. 

Let’s not be like that with God, but let’s honour God today by believing His word and His promises and stand on them come what may. Our authority, our strength, and our victory are all found in His Word because Jesus is The Word.😊 Amen.

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