Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
2 Corinthians 5:18, “And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;”
The preposition used in this verse reveals that our starting place is in God, and that everything proceeds out of God.
Romans 11:36 also shows us that God is our source: “For out of Him and through Him and to Him are all things.”
God is the starting point for all things.
For example, this morning when I woke up, I had a spontaneous feeling within me.
It was as if the Lord was saying, “Don’t move, don’t think, don’t allow yourself to do anything. Just sink into Me.”
We do not have a right to live.
We are not the initiators in our lives.
God is our starting place, because everything is out of Him.
He has the first place in all things.
One of the clearest verses showing that the Lord Jesus lived from the Father as His source is John 5:30: “I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.”
In His humanity, the Lord was not the source of his actions and words.
Although He could have legitimately taken His own sinless soul as the base and source of His living, He lived exclusively from the Father.
First John 2:27 is a key verse in the New Testament that reveals how God is our source: “But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.”
God becomes our source experientially when we follow the movement of the anointing within us from Him.
This indicates that the practical matters in our lives originate from Him as our source.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
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