CONDITION
VS. POSITION
JOHN
15
Jon
15:5: “I am the
vine; you are the branches. If a man
remains in Me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from Me you can do
nothing.”
Jesus shows believers our position
in the opening Scripture. The lesson
linked below shows clearly how precious believers are to God, both as branches
and those He glorifies! So when we find
ourselves in a jam, let us remember whose
we are. Our hardship will be
resolved. We will never lose our
position in Christ.
That’s the point of this “Condition
Vs. Position” devotion. Regardless of
our situation, we remain forever positioned in the heavenly realms with Christ
(Ephesians 2:6). Jesus says that He is
the vine and we are the branches. He
doesn’t say we’re to try to be the
branches. We already are His.
As branches, we only need to abide
(rest in or remain) in Christ. How do we
abide in Jesus? We can remember every
day whose we are. God accepts whoever
believes in Jesus as Lord. Ephesians
1:4-5 says, “For He chose us before the creation of the world to be holy and
blameless in His sight. In love He
predestined us to be adopted as His sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance of
His pleasure and will.”
Ten your old Jeremy was surrounded
by twelve year old bullies at the swimming pool. “So you like football, do you?” one
asked. They “ushered him” to the parking
lot. “Run with this football to the end
of the parking lot.” As Jeremy began running,
one after another tackled him.
The older kids abandoned Jeremy
bleeding on the black top and baking in the bright sunshine. His friend Brad found him, and wondered,
“What did you do to make them do this?”
“I don’t know.” Jeremy said. “Maybe they don’t want me to play football in
middle school.”
“Well, let’s get you into the pool
so the chlorine water can clean you up.” Brad suggested.
“That will sting like crazy!” Jeremy
complained.
“Yeah,” Brad agreed, “But that’ll be
better than you getting infections from all these scrapes!”
Take
Home Nugget
The devil wants us to
see ourselves like Jeremy, all bruised and bloody. He wants God’s kids to focus on our condition
instead of our position. That way, we
won’t be effective branches bearing fruit for God’s kingdom. He wants you to forget that you are an heir of
God and joint-heir with Jesus (Romans 8:17).
The
devil wants us to forget that we have power through prayer to correct our
condition. God restores confidence in
our position—holy, blameless and dearly beloved. No condition can trump your position in
Christ.
Never
believe your condition endangers your position!
J.D. Griffith
Click here for Interactive-Online-Lesson for ConditionV s. Position
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