I am come that they might have lift, and that they might have it more abundantly (John 10:10).
Many people think that Jesus brought us a good, nice religion but that’s absolutely untrue. He didn’t say “...l am come that they might have a good religion” or “...l am come that they might have a better religion”—He said ‘...l am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly.” The term “more abundantly” doesn’t mean having more and more life. It means “life in its fullest”; Jesus came to give us life to the full—life in its entirety; in its completeness. He didn’t come to add to the numerous religions in the world today. Religion is man’s way of approaching God, but Jesus brought us something better and greater—he brought us the higher life in Christ. That’s Christianity. It is the life of God lived out through you; it is divinity at work in your physical body! It is the unveiling of the Living Word in a human life! It is God Almighty taking up His abode in a human person—that’s what Jesus brought to us.
Religion is man’s way of reaching out to God, but Christianity is God reaching out to man. Until this becomes a personal revelation to you, all you have will be mere religion. The reason we go to church, pray, win souls and do all the things we do isn’t that we have received a religion, but because we have received God’s nature.
Jesus made it possible for us to receive into our spirits the same quality of life that only God has and if you’re born again, you’ve become a partaker of that fullness of life. This is what it means to be a Christian—having the nature of God in your spirit and the pulsating life of Christ in every fiber of your being!
By Pastor Anita
Best Rhapsodies
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Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord (Colossians 3:18). The responsibility of a wife in marriage ... -
Out the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seet...
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Wherefore the rather brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall (2 Pete...
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For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he... (Proverbs 23:7). Thoughts are pictures of the mind that have constructive or destructive poten...
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And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, before the new court, And said, 0 Lord God of ... -
A merry heart doeth good like medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones (Proverbs 17:22). I’ve had the opportunity to observe people...
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Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish’s belly (Jonah 2:1). A young lady had been sick for several years and had been gi...