GOD-NESS & BOLD-NESS…No, I didn’t misspell the word ‘God-ness’. The typical term is Godliness…which is short for God-like-ness. It’s applications are varied and many. What I want to focus on today is God-full-ness. An inward saturation…if you will. Many people think about God…but are they full of God? Some enjoy His influence in their lives…but are they full of God? Still others pray to Him often…but again do they sense the affect of being full of God?
“The wicked run away when no one is chasing them, but the Godly are as
bold as lions.” ~Proverbs 28:1
One of the grand affects of being full of God is…significant boldness. We often hold an image in our minds of the ornery old cuss who is drunk half the time, pushes ladies down in the street, scares children and laughs at danger. We surmise that toughened shell of a person is afraid of nothing. When in fact, that man is more riddled with fear than most. The tough persona is an effort to try to feel fearless…to compensate for the real fear. But it never works to deal with fear from the outside. Fear is soul deep. Trying to address it from the personality level is fruitless. The drunken rough-neck isn’t the fearless one…it’s the person who is filled with God that is fearless. I love the phrase, ‘bold as lions’. What a picture. Has anyone ever scared a lion? Lions have the physical strength and speed to dominate all other creatures…AND THEY KNOW IT! Try to scare a lion, and they just look at you like they’re bored. Try to intimidate a lion, and they look back with true intimidation. They don’t have a flee instinct…only a chase instinct. And these are the creatures we are likened to…when we are full of God. Christ lives inside of us…and He simply doesn’t know how to run. The flee nature is non-existent in Divinity. And in some incredible way…we can actually feel that indomitable spirit flowing from inside of us…from Christ Himself. We are the Boldest of the Bold! Do you know it? ~verlon
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"He shatters the doors of bronze and the bars of iron" [Psalm 107:16].....
ReplyDeleteRemember our boy's a sitting in the jail....Earthquake opened em...hmmm that's a coincidence... it be a purposeful act of God to us though...
And Christ descended to the gates of hell shattering those gates and risen again...A purposeful God in Action....and that is no mere coincidence...destined from the beginning of time...
However he did show up at the right time, the right place, , to the right people, in the right moments, with the right miracles, in the right way to fulfill prophesy and that sure wasn't by chance.
His random interactions all perfect in God's manifestation of fulfillment....This leads me to believe there are no coincidences-only random acts of God... They appear coincidentally right where they should be.....Be Bold in your standing right where you should be with God. God has placed you there even to face the lion as Daniel did and profess his Glory of it.... And when Daniel was lifted from the den, no wound was found on him, because he had trusted in his God." “For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.”
....His Hand.. It's just that His fingerprints are just coincidentally on everything......
PS...Remeber Daniel today...While in the Lions den his mind said "This suckers gonna eat me."
ReplyDeleteHis heart pounding said even louuder "Trust in your God."
God's Angels shut the lion's mouth.. so trust in the heart.."Considered in my heart"..It's God's your standing in it now.....