Question of the Day: “How does the understanding of reigning in life through Christ's grace change your approach to challenges and battles?”
Wow, answering that question could require a lengthy essay!
The key is "...through Christ's grace..." In my numerous challenges and battles, I had to relearn what reigning and victory/success really means. Briefly, this DOES NOT mean achieving my own will, or controlling circumstances, or an end to challenges and battles. It means that I am unrestrained to perform God's will - to bring to pass HIS will in the physical realm. The impact is quite elegantly expressed in 2 Corinthians:
2 Corinthians 2:14–17
[14] But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. [15] For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, [16] to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? [17] For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God’s word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ. (ESV)
Question of the Day: “How does the understanding of reigning in life through Christ's grace change your approach to challenges and battles?”
Wow, answering that question could require a lengthy essay!
The key is "...through Christ's grace..." In my numerous challenges and battles, I had to relearn what reigning and victory/success really means. Briefly, this DOES NOT mean achieving my own will, or controlling circumstances, or an end to challenges and battles. It means that I am unrestrained to perform God's will - to bring to pass HIS will in the physical realm. The impact is quite elegantly expressed in 2 Corinthians:
2 Corinthians 2:14–17
[14] But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. [15] For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, [16] to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? [17] For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God’s word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ. (ESV)
Thank you Keith for the value that you just added to this teaching!