Getting In On the Victory

The preacher said – “so often the solution does not come until the action begins.” He was talking about an exercise of faith that precedes the supernatural intervention of God in our circumstances. The example was Joshua leading the Children of Israel across the Jordan River into the Promised Land.  With the river at flood stage they surely had misgivings about their ability to cross. He pointed out that they were able to cross the river on dry land after first having set foot in the raging flood.

I got a quick look at the “follow-up” notes from Sunday night – you’ll remember he stopped the message short, without finishing – and the last point really struck me. After giving us the illustrations of how God had intervened in such things as freeing Peter from prison (Acts 12:7), calming the storm that threatened the life of His disciples (Mark 4:39), and reminded us that escape from sin comes from within the temptation itself (1 Corinthians 10:13), he was about to refer us to John 11:43, and the narrative of Lazarus. The reason Lazarus could be resurrected was because he was dead. Duh! Yet there are folks who want to live resurrection power life without ever coming to a place of death for the “old self.” (See Romans 6:1ff)

If we never come to the place where we“consider our self dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus,” we are never going to know resurrection power for daily living.

Man, I wish he’d said that!