Thoughts
on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength - # 250
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The
big tragedy in Christianity in America is all the Believers running around
carrying their marked study bibles, their hi-tech research and resource
mechanisms, and their multi-volumes of sermon and study notebooks…and living lives
that are empty, falling apart, and suffering from anger, bitterness, unforgiveness,
depression, etc., etc. Wow.
How
could “Oh, Victory in Jesus” be absent from the life of a Christian? Well, I think Michael has given us a good reason
in today’s writing…
DAY 165
Intellectuals
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling
among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and only, who
came from the Father, full of grace and truth. --John 1:14
Some are viewed as great intellectuals, but I have a problem with
intellectuals. They sit around a coffee table, do not live life, theorize
about it, and never see the outworking of it. I like farmers. They think about something, go
make it, and if it does not work, they will not keep making it. To me this is
true intellectualism; the work is concrete and can be tested. Intellectuals
want others to test their theories while they sit. This is the one thing I
appreciate about Hemingway; he tested his life theories and killed himself as
the logical end of what he believed.
For all of our
culture's listening to "intellectuals," the "experts," and
the "open-minded," real-life experience has surely proven that they
know not and what they expound does not work. Our society is dying by degrees while educated in
ignorance and in what does not work.
God did not give
a teaching in the form of a book from heaven for men on earth. A book was not
good enough for God. The Word became flesh; the teaching was all fleshed
out in Jesus and proven by His life. God did not talk from heaven like
an intellectual; He came
to earth to show us how life works. The Man who did everything did nothing, since He said it
was the Father doing through Him, and He says that greater things we can do.
He must mean greater than His nothing. Can we rise to the challenge?
Yellow – VIP, Very Important Point Green
– IT, Incredible Truth
Red – GP, Greatest Promises
Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches Pink
– PV, Priceless Victory
If “the Man who did everything did nothing, since He said it was the
Father doing through Him, and He says that greater things we can do” LIVES
INSIDE EVERY Believer, how can so many have lives like I described in the
intro? Michael tells us: it’s not
KNOWING; it is LIVING. And Jesus PROVED
His LIFE is what will give us victory instead of defeat.
I loved hearing Michael talk about Matthew ch.’s 5-6-7 not being a
sermon on a mount, but Life On The Mount!
This is His coming “to earth to show us how life works.” Knowing the Bible frontwards and backwards (intellect)
is not a substitute for His Life being lived out of our lives. Listen to 2nd Corinthians 4:11,
“For
we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life
also of Jesus might be made
manifest in our mortal flesh.”
Self dying, Christ
living. That is Life As A Christian…Jesus’
Life lived through us…an integral part of His being IN us.
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