Tag: Savior

Less Than His Best

Stop settling for, stop striving for, stop aching for less than His best for you.

We must stop our faithless pursuits. He did not create us for mediocrity. He did not create those who will inherit a heavenly kingdom to lust after flesh-satisfying goals. We are holy royalty, ‘chosen in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love He predestined us to be adopted as His children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will, to the praise of His glorious grace’ (Ephesians 1:4 – 6).

Credit: Ash Almonte

Every moment we spend trying in vain to increase our self-esteem, self-confidence, self-awareness is time wasted, time that could have been spent increasing a lost soul’s knowledge of the Savior, increasing someone’s holy confidence and God-esteem. Investing in others is what increases our holy confidence and God-esteem.

Self be damned! He never said to rely on self. It was Ralph Waldo Emerson who preached self-reliance — not the Creator, not the Savior, not the Comforter. Have you ever heard of “self-create,” “self-save,” or “self-comfort?” OK, maybe self-comfort. But really — how effective is hugging yourself?

(May 24, 2018)

#histimeisshort

Don’t let your enemy goad you into a false sense of insecurity. You are secure by the humiliation, torture, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, Lord and Savior. You see, victory has been secured for us, ‘not by human might or power, but by the Spirit of the Lord Almighty’ (Zechariah 4:6).

Me, victoriously ‘laughing without fear of the future’ (Proverbs 31:25b).

Your enemy threatens you with lies of standards that are impossible to reach because he is ever changing them. He is the original trendsetter. But Jesus — He’s a classic.

You do not need to put on what is fashionable, living a lifestyle that reflects a culture of lies, impossibilities, and here-and-now. Instead, be ‘God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, and clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience’ (Colossians 3:12). Live in Truth, in holy promises, and in light of eternity.

Satan commandeers our media, manipulating it to spotlight his incredible yet tangible fiction. I implore you: do not believe the lies — the greatest of which is that you are not OK. The empty tomb proves otherwise. Satan’s confidence is nothing but bravado. He knows historically that God governs heaven and hell with the Word, where it declares incarnate, in print, and in every language that #histimeisshort.