Today I am going to go back to an old favorite of mine for a devotion - "My Utmost For His Highest", by Oswald Chambers. I find this writings very challenging, not just in his choice of words, but in his thoughts as well.
"Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into His glory?" - Luke 24:26
Our Lord's cross is the gateway into His life: His Resurrection means that He has power now to convey His life to me. When I am born again from above, I recieve from the Risen Lord His very life.
Our Lord's resurrection destiny is to bring "many sons unto glory." The fulfilling of His destiny gives Him the right to make us sons and daughters of God. We are never in the relationship to God that the Son of God is in; but we are brought by the Son into the relation of sonship. When our Lord rose from the dead, He rose to an absoutely new life, to a life He did not live before He was incarnate. He rose to a life that had never been before; and His resurrection means for us that we are raised to His risen life, not to our old life. One day we shall have a body like unto His glorious body, but we can know now the efficacy of His resurrecction and walk in newness of life. "I would know Him in the power of His resurrection."
See what I mean about his choice of words. Pretty powerful and really reaches you with is vocabulary. Now what does this mean to you? I welcome your thoughts as we approach Easter.
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