My husband and daughter left for school as I was emptying the dishwasher. I was in a rather low mood and angry about it as well. I had no conscious reason to be feeling the way I was so I began to talk to Jesus about what was wrong. After determining it wasn’t because I needed to go pray for someone or something I decided I needed to take a more offensive stance against this “mood” knowing I have an enemy who absolutely hates for me to enjoy my life and to be sure I covered all the bases as to the cause of this low state. It wasn’t long before I found myself quoting good things from the Word as I was reminded of them and it wasn’t long before my low state of mind was gone.
I don’t know about you, but I am not one of those people who wakes up every single day like I slept in the slap happy tree in a hammock all night, add to that any intention of the enemy to rob me of joy and you have a recipe for a downright miserable day. After getting my joy back, which Jesus died for me to have by the way, I continued to get myself together and as I did the Lord began to give me some insight about my experience. It isn’t the first time I have been in this particular class but I do see he finds it necessary to give a refresher course every now and then.
It says in Romans 8 that “the law of the spirit of life has set me free from the law of sin and death”. Often we think of that in terms of us being rescued from hell because we are sinners. While that is part of it as given in the context of us not being under condemnation if we are in Christ that isn’t all there is in that verse. It is referring as well to the “here and now” not just the “then and there” as in when I get to heaven. Jesus said that he came that we might have life and have it abundantly; life as in the kind God himself possesses as opposed to the life that animals and plants have. You know that a plane has the capability to supersede the law of gravity through the law of aerodynamics, which to me is pretty awesome considering that God is the one who created the law of gravity in the first place, yet you can get on a plane and sit there for the rest of your life and never get off the ground. The fact that the plane has what it takes to defy gravity isn’t what makes it fly; it is a man engaging what the plane is equipped with that makes it fly. A plane is made to fly; it is created for the purpose of defying the law of gravity, but being created that way doesn’t mean it will ever leave the ground.
We are a lot like planes much to my surprise. We have been given what we need to supersede the law of sin and death through the law of the spirit of life, but like a plane, unless we engage what we have been given in the Holy Spirit, even though we have what it takes we can spend all our lives dwelling in death as if that is what we were created for. The Holy Spirit is actually what causes us to “fly” but we have to expend the effort to start the engine and engage the throttle just like a pilot does a plane. And the best part is unlike a plane which is limited in how high it can fly, the only limitation on us is the one we place on ourselves. Jesus paid the highest price possible to make available to us everything we need pertaining to life and godliness; we have an obligation to not only do our part to “fly” but to let others know they can fly as well if they want to.
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