Thoughts
on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength - # 143
Michael’s book is
available through:
Abiding Life Ministries
International
Littleton, Colorado
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I
have read studies where somewhere between 80-90% of all Believers come to know
Christ by age 18. And now Michael gives
us a staggering statistic from another study on “the average age of coming to
see that Christ was actually IN a person”…
Very interesting and comforting read for many today!
DAY 117
Go Slowly, Do Not Get Depressed, Take Your Time
You
have shortened the days of his youth. --Psalm 89:45
I was talking to a
fellow who was discouraged that at age 22 he had not seen that Jesus was his
life. I laughed. “Brother,
if you could know all that you need to know before entering heaven at age 22,
God would not have set the length of man’s life at seventy years! Relax.”
God has created this world for
a purpose, and it functions under His permission. There are things that can only be
learned here. We
are in the process of losing all in order that we might gain everything in Him.
In one study the average
age of coming to see that Christ was actually in a person was said to be
between 55 and 70. We
simply cannot receive it all at once! We are not intended to get it all at
once! We are in a process!
Yellow – VIP, Very Important Point Green
– IT, Incredible Truth
Red – GP, Greatest Promises
Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches Pink
– PV, Priceless Victory
Perspective affects so much of what we believe, and therefore how we
act. Do we truthfully perceive that all
things in this world function under God’s permission? If so, we can trust God as opposed to “hoping”
He will be involved.
It is a great relief that God has us in a process, and that we will grow
into what He has for us in due time. If
we don’t get in too much of a tizzy at age 7 that we aren’t as physically
developed as we will be at age 17, why should we get in a tizzy early in our
spiritual life…knowing we will “mature” with time? And, maybe better still, can those who are
teachers and disciplers show a little patience with their students who are
first getting revelation of some truth like “Christ is IN us”?
I KNEW who I was IN Christ for 15 years before I KNEW who Christ was IN
me. Well, amen.
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