Strength
Section III, overview: The glory of Jesus Christ, in an applicable sense, is His character: it is who He is. The beholding of and pursuit of God’s glory in the face of Jesus Christ ought to be the Christian man’s chief enjoyment and focus. It is through this vital act that we are conformed and transformed into His glorious image; through this overriding passion our lives are transformed and the image of Jesus which we reflect becomes clearer. Our lives are given purpose, strength, peace, hope, love, and all other good things when we fixedly place our gaze on our King, Shepherd, Groom, Mediator, and Savior – Jesus Christ. Jesus’ life is the ultimate blueprint for any man’s life. His glorious character far outshines every single person ever to live, and so we will look at His character, His glory, and find therein great and vital instruction for our lives, as well as magnificent encouragement.
Strength is obtained only from God. For it is from Him, through His Spirit, by maintaining a relationship with and abiding in Jesus Christ, that strength comes. Strength gives us, as it did Jesus, the resolve, the power, the toughness, to resist yielding to temptation; to have integrity in hard situations; to be unmoved from God’s purposes; and to have the power to perform God’s will. We must recognize our weakness and cry out to God for strength: for it comes from Him. We must see Jesus’ strength as He went to the cross with resolves, yielding not to the flesh or to His or another’s will, but to The Father’s; we must see Jesus Christ in His glory, as He resisted every temptation and performed God’s laws flawlessly. This is the strength that Jesus had, and which He can give us through His Spirit.
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- Section I: Testing our Salvation
- Section II: Soldiers of Christ & Victors in Christ
- Section III, Main page
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