I once heard a man say that "salvation without faith is like a nuclear explosion without a fallout." I've thought about that alot lately. What a profound statement. As christians we are a new creation, but yet we seem to live in these stale bodies that know nothing more than sin. We have this false idealism that as soon as we receive Christ that somehow our whole world will change. There will be no more worry, no more stress, no more anger, no more bitterness......but we forget that we ARE mearly flesh! We've been called to a new life in Christ and our goal as a Christ follower is to be more like him every day. But holding ourselves up to Christ and comparing life notes create's a false feeling of failure within us. Philippians 2 talks about imitating Christ's humility....not being Christ...but imitating him. Philippians 2:6 says "who being in very nature of God did NOT consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant."
Even Christ knew that he couldn't live up to his father, he didn't even try...he simply laid down his life as he wanted to live it and took on a life that he knew would honor his father, taking on the life of a servant. Our flesh fails us so often, we want to make a huge God fit into our small little world where we think our problems are just to big for him. We believe in the miracles of the bible but yet we believe them for then...not for now. Why do we believe God could be God then and that he can't handle the problems that burden us today. Last I checked..I didn't lead a ton of people out to the promised land and land myself face to face with the red sea!! And we all know how that turned out. I'm sure Moses had some doubts at that moment, just as we do today.
It's time as Christ followers that we quit trying to be Jesus of our lives and let him do his job...in and through our lives. God healed the cracks left in Christ's flesh from a death he didn't deserve....lets believe he can heal our cracks as well.
