power of the resurrection
the fellowship of His sufferings
conformed to His death
Those are some pretty heavy things to make your own. I many times find myself underestimating or not fully grasping the reality and depth of what the Lord has accomplished for my sake.
Being a christian is not defined by your sunday schedule, your vocabulary or the super secret apple pie recipe that has been passed down from one church bake sale to another.
To know God and the power of His resurrection, take a second to think about it, go on, I won’t be offended...
Pretty amazing huh? I was just thinking about it and trying to wrap my mind around a full and complete concept of God...it gave me a head ache. Through Christ I have the power to intimately spend time with the very entity that spoke the complexity of the universe into existence.....what?!
There is a true depth to this relationship I have with Christ, it entails persecution, trial and low valleys just as much as it entails love, hope, joy and peace.
This is REAL.To limit it only to a hobby or a time slot in your schedule is pretty much blasphemous. My relationship with God is continuously transforming me, and the second that it’s not, it probably means that I’ve lost sight of the magnitude of the amazing opportunity that I have in having true communion with the Living and Loving God.
For me personally, I’ve tried christianity as simply a hobby or a filler in one of my time slots, but now that I have embraced it fully and have experienced it in the way God originally intended for me to experience it...I can never go back. Im no longer content with settling in my relationship with Christ, I don’t just want to brilliant sunday morning smiles, and the cheesy Christianese phrases. I want the messy, hard, painstakingly impossible, all of it, every single aspect of being in a relationship with Christ, from being conformed to His death, to partaking in the fellowship of His suffering and especially the power of the resurrection.
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