Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
2 Corinthians 5:7, “(For we walk by faith, not by sight)”
This life is a life of faith.
You are living by faith.
You have a spirit of faith.
That is why Paul says in 2 Corinthians 4:13, “We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;”
Here Paul is quoting from Psalm 116, which speaks of taking “the cup of salvation” and calling on the name of the Lord.
So the speaking in verse 13 is really a calling.
Paul was calling on the name of the Lord.
His exercised “spirit of faith” brought him into the realm of faith.
Vision causes us to walk by faith, not by sight.
When we stimulate our spirit, we see the real situation from the view of God’s economy–we are in the process of transformation, and the life of Christ is being increasingly manifested in our mortal flesh.
When you exercise your spirit, you get into another realm and you begin to live by faith.
Our exercised spirit brings in vision, and vision brings in faith.
The more vision we have, the more faith we have.
The faith expresses itself by contacting the Lord and applying the cross: 2 Corinthians 4:10, “Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.”
How much do we coordinate inwardly with the outward environment?
God arranges our environments.
He hands us over to the exact environments we need–those particular ones for you and for me.
Then He causes those environments to be matched at the right time with the inward application of the cross.
This inward application of the cross is an exercise of our spirit of faith to call on the Lord, to get refocused from what is happening at that moment to what is happening in eternity, to what is happening in God’s economy.
Our focus is on what is taking place in the realm of faith and eternity.
Our focus is not in the realm of right and wrong, what is due us, what we deserve, or how we are being treated.
We get completely out of that realm into the realm of what is happening in relationship to God’s economy–how much Christ is being added to us.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
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