God calls each one of us in the righteousness of Jesus, as only the shed Blood of Calvary covering our lives is the sufficiency for right standing before God Almighty. As God’s Fatherhood is restored to us, He then takes us by the hand and watches over us, to ensure that His nearness and oversight on our lives secure our journey on to Eternity. However, it is not enough that salvation be ours. He also desires that all have the same opportunity of restoration.
In Isaiah 49: 6, we read, “He (God) says, ” It is too small a thing that you should be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also make you a light of the nations, so that My salvation may reach to the end of the earth.” God has made a covenant with us through the life, death, and resurrection of His Son Jesus. As we enter into this covenant, we then become the witness of this covenant, as a sealed document would be sent on any dispatch. We also become carriers of the light that Jesus is within us to all the places in which we have the opportunity to walk.
2 Corinthians 3: 2, 3 and 6 says, “You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, not written in ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts. (God) who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.”
There is a saying that, “My life as a Christian is the only Bible many people will read.” Our lives should therefore reflect the life of Jesus, so that, as others look upon us to read what they see, it may give them an opportunity to accept or reject Jesus. Because of the tremendous gift of freewill given to each person, many will reject us, not for who we are, but for whose we are. Many will also receive hope and salvation, as we allow the peace of God within us in Jesus to radiate on to them.
In John 14: 18 Jesus says, “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.” Imagine, anyone hating Jesus, the One who laid down His life unto death, that we could enjoy eternal life forever in Glory. Jesus says to His disciples in Luke 10: 16, “The one who listens to you listens to Me, and the one who rejects you rejects Me; and the one who rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.” With these words of Jesus, we can receive much comfort at the rejection of some, because their rejection is that of Jesus, Who reigns within our hearts.
Dearest Holy Lord Jesus: Thank You so much for the phenomenal miracle of Grace and power, which you have so lavished upon us. You save and comfort us, and then fill us, so that Your Love may reach countless others. You also permit us in the process to identify with the joys and pains which you suffered as the Holy Covenant of God among men, while on earth. May You be greatly glorified through Your faithful vessels of clay, which bear You as their Glorious treasure within. Glory to Yo alone!
