Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Day 135 - Having an Explosion

Thoughts on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength - # 235
         
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That irrepressible “you” in a life…how seemingly dastard is he/she.  Oh, my.  It isn’t he/she as much as I.

Michael gives us a good look at how God is at work in us, even when “you” show up.



DAY 135 

Having an Explosion 

He must increase, but I must decrease. --John 3:30

How does one take the smallest particle and make it smaller? By exploding it! The nucleus of the atom is a very small thing, and yet it can be made smaller through an explosion. There is a lesson here for all that would decrease that God might increase. The smallest bit of self-life will be made smaller only after God magnifies it through an explosion. “Oh, I was doing so well loving God and walking in holiness, and then you entered the room. I can walk perfectly well with Jesus until you enter the room. I do not really have any problems, and walking in the Spirit is natural, until you enter the room.” Though we do not like being confronted with it, whenever a you in our life enters the room, our self-life explodes! We did not think that we had a self-life that ugly until it was inescapably revealed to us. We need not be discouraged or avoid the person or the situation, when we can see God and have a move in Him. He is only exploding self so that it might decrease in us. We can simply acknowledge to Him the flesh when we grasp our weak inability to love. We decrease that He might increase.

Yellow – VIP, Very Important Point      Green – IT, Incredible Truth        
Red – GP, Greatest Promises
Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches           Pink – PV, Priceless Victory

How many give thought that God is moving in us when our self-life explodes?  Well, Michael says two things are important:
     The smallest bit of self-life will be made smaller only after God magnifies it through an explosion.
        We need not be discouraged or avoid the person or the situation, when we can see God and have a move in Him.

There it is…”see God and have a move in Him.”  God is the One who can reclaim that ground we have given the enemy.  God is the One who can heal the past.  How amazing is it that we have no difficulty trusting God to “forgive our sin, and take us to Heaven when we leave this world”…but we don’t trust Him to do something with our flesh?

Getting past the past…what a wonderful victory for those who decrease and Christ increases in life today.



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