Are You Living Today?

Question to think about: Are you living beyond your limitations . . . in the power of Christ?

My friend leaves today for a nine-month journey. The agenda is simple: help people, giving them hope. The process may not be as simple . . . she is traveling with a group of people that she has never met and is going into areas that she has never been to do things that she has never done. Why? God said go. She is going, willing to learn and choosing to trust God.

The thing is, we are made to live the way God wants us to live. The strength, endurance, and ability to do what God says to do . . . will always be available. . . if, we want it. Ephesians 2:10 states: "For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life" (NRS).

Another translation might read: Don't just sit there. Get up! Don't get stuck in your circumstances. Get going! God has created us to live with purpose and passion today. So, we need to see through the problems and the challenges in order to proceed through the power, presence, and peace of God. When we live the way we are designed to live we can be sure that with God nothing is impossible (Luke 1:37); regardless of whatever we are presented with God will empower us . . . we can do all things through Christ (Philippians 4:13); despite human limitations, God has created us to be able to more than can be asked, thought of, or imagined (Ephesians 3:20)!

John explained that when we believe in the life Christ gives us, we will experience what we have been created to experience: engaged, participating, active, energized living through God. Without belief in the life Christ offers, we will not experience true life: "The One that God sent speaks God's words. And don't think he rations out the Spirit in bits and pieces. The Father loves the Son extravagantly. He turned everything over to him so he could give it away—a lavish distribution of gifts. That is why whoever accepts and trusts the Son gets in on everything, life complete and forever! And that is also why the person who avoids and distrusts the Son is in the dark and doesn't see life. All he experiences of God is darkness, and an angry darkness at that." (John 3:34-36, The Message)

Believe that God has prepared you to live beyond the problems and circumstances.
Live today.
Live in Christ.
Remember that God has been, is, and will be at work in and through you today.
Learning with you to really live,
Shalom,
Kerrie
(All devotions written by Kerrie Palmer ©2008 All Rights Reserved)