Thoughts
on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength - # 122
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Littleton, Colorado
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I express on Michael’s writings in an easy manner.
Having
preached in different places to folks of a different language with an
interpreter translating what I say…I too have encountered what Michael is talking
about relative to the translator struggling to come up with a word in the other
language to convey what I said in English.
In fact, sometimes they just simply say, “We don’t have a word for the
word you used. Can you say it another
way?” In today’s writing Michael points
out the importance of understanding exactly what Jesus was saying when He spoke
about Himself BEING the Vine, and then how our “abiding” is so much of our
relationship to Him. May God give you
great insights into this teaching.
Day 1
Abide Is The Hardest Word
Abide in Me, and I in
you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so
neither can you unless you abide in Me. –John 15:4
Having
spoken through hundreds of interpreters in nearly that many languages, I
consistently find that the hardest word in the Bible to translate is abiding. Many languages use the word remaining, and yet that does not quite
cover this important word, for Jesus did not use an analogy of the vine, saying
that He was like a vine; He
said that He was the Vine. Every vine preaches and teaches Jesus. Abiding is the culmination of His work and is everything,
for in abiding we receive the Everything, Jesus. Is it not amazing that
the whole work of Jesus is revealed in this one word? It would also make sense
that the enemy would work to obscure the word. Abiding: holding me in Him, His life in me, cleansing,
revealing what I am, kept safe from so much disease, a moment-by-moment
existence, eternal life. Abiding, abiding, abiding. Wonderful!
Yellow – VIP, Very Important Point Green
– IT, Incredible Truth
Red – GP, Greatest Promises
Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches Pink
– PV, Priceless Victory
Isn’t it amazing that Christianity is so much more than:
· I am a
Christian.
· I am going to
Heaven when I die.
And it is NOT an endeavor to try or work to “be” a Christian, or a
better Christian.
Look carefully at what
Michael points out:
1. “Abiding is the culmination of His work and is everything, for in
abiding we receive the Everything, Jesus.”
Culmination: the end or final
result of something. As a Christian I
HAVE (not “need to get”) the Everything, Jesus.
All that He is, I have.
2. He is “holding me in Him, His life in me, cleansing, revealing what I
am, kept safe from so much disease, a moment-by-moment existence, eternal
life.”
I HAVE and AM all these
things. What an incredible realization
expanding my being a Christian (what Christianity is) past the two simple
statements I mentioned at the first.
Each and every day, moment-by-moment, I can live all of this with a
greater expectation of what God is going to do in and through my life. Amen!
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