Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Wireless...

Wireless… It’s a fascinating concept. The little machine across the room from me can print out whatever I type on this machine, just by my pushing the ‘Print’ button.

No wires connecting it, it’s completely separated from the brain of this computer. How does that happen? How can information and data be transferred thru thin air?

Imagine all the data that’s floating around you right now. If you had a receiver to process each different one, it might fill up the room! The information is there, but it must have a proper receiver.

In the spiritual realm, God’s Spirit is present and is “able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us…”(Eph.. 3:21)

We aren’t connected to Him by special lineage. We are Gentiles, not Jews, (but praise God that “ Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus.” Eph. 3:6)

We don’t get connected by doing some particular activity. “…not by works,”(Eph. 2:9)

We don’t SEE this connection. "No eye has seen….but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.”(1Cor. 2:10)

He chooses us to receive. “For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1Thes. 5:9)

So the question is, “Will you?”

Will you be a receiver to re-present Jesus Christ?
Will you respond to His wireless request?
Will you let Him transform you, changing you so that you document and display the power of His saving grace?

I am not hardwired to God. But there is a definite wireless connection….

I don’t push the ‘print’ button and have Him do my bidding. He presses mine.

His desire is that my life duplicate the life of His dear Son.

The print job is in progress.

“And in Him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.” (Eph. 2:22)