Thoughts
on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength - # 140
Michael’s book is
available through:
Abiding Life Ministries
International
Littleton, Colorado
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If
there is one word to describe what most people want: it would often be “life.” Just a life.
Yet, too many miss that REAL life is Jesus’ LIFE. Michael points out to us the simple fact of
what is the “greatest hindrance to being delivered from the events that present
themselves today”…
DAY 72
Removal Of Self-Centeredness Leads To Life
But {women} shall be preserved through the bearing of
children. --I Timothy 2:15
Preserved literally means saved, and saved, as used
in the New Testament, refers to being delivered from the self and its
manifestations. The
greatest hindrance to being delivered from the events that present themselves
today is self and its propensity toward obsessing on what will never help it .
. . which is its self. A mother has a unique experience in
that she might be the most self-centered person in the world, but then in an
instant when the doctor lays a baby in her arms, her self-centeredness gives
way to focus on another through caring for the baby. Life and death for the
baby is determined by the degree to which the mother moves away from being
self-centered. I have asked many in ministry, and all seem to agree that women
respond first to the Gospel. Why? If they are mothers, then self, the only hindrance to
Christ, has been dealt a severe blow in childbirth. With self-life knocked from the
paramount position, the women can more easily draw near to Jesus, finding Life
and deliverance.
"But {women}
shall be preserved through the bearing of children." The understanding to be derived
is not that women who cannot or have
not had children cannot be saved from self-centeredness. I personally
have never given birth to a child, and yet I have every intention of being
saved! The analogy is twofold.
The birth of a child removes self-centeredness, and this birth happened in
pain. The believer has a new birth, a new life that has dealt a fatal deathblow
to self; because of this death he can have Life. This birth came through pain.
Is the woman's pain in childbirth bad? Yes, but I cannot believe it is not
worth it after observing the countenance of my wife as she held each of our
newborns. Is the pain of
events, disappointments, and relationships really bad when they lead to Life?
No, nothing with such a result is ultimately bad. Children of God are faith people and the only
people on the face of the planet that can say that.
Yellow – VIP, Very Important Point Green
– IT, Incredible Truth
Red – GP, Greatest Promises
Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches Pink
– PV, Priceless Victory
Amazing that it is so simple to identify our problem: “self, the only
hindrance to Christ.”
Amazing how difficult it seems for Christians to remove self from the
paramount position, so that Life can be found, especially when every Christian
possesses that Life.
Choose Life…lose self. Not
complicated at all. Well, amen.
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