Galatians 2:20: "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, Who loved me, and gave Himself for me."Good morning Friends and Family,
Our Lord Jesus is a "people builder". Whenever He touches a life, it begins to "appreciate in value." This is a very personal verse, written as Paul strove to explain the dramatic change which knowing Jesus had brought into his life.
Paul had been a Pharisee of the Pharisees, bound up in a rigid code of statutes and regulations. After Jesus met him, he became a free man, constrained only by LOVE. Paul had been a murderer, a man filled with violence and anger. The touch of Jesus turned him into a man whose greatest desire was to bring others to new life through Christ. Paul had been a critic and persecutor of others, bent on the destruction of the Church, hostile to nationalities foreign to his Israelite heritage. He became, by the transforming power of Jesus, a builder of churches and was used by God to spread the gospel to the Gentile world.
Consider also the changes in Peter, from impulsive braggart to great leader of the early church; in the apostle John, from "son of thunder" to writer of the words "God is love;" in Mary Magdalene, from demon-possessed prostitute to faithful follower of Jesus.
And what of your own life? Take time to think for a moment of all the wonders God has wrought in your life since you felt Jesus' mighty touch.
Think of how deeply your life has been changed by His presence. Perhaps as you do, you will, as Paul did, come to recognise that you have been built up in all that you are because He Himself has done even more than merely touch your life- He has come to INDWELL YOUR LIFE, AND CLAIM YOU FOR HIS OWN, HIS VERY ONE.
All "for" and "in" the Love of Jesus,
James Wesley
