Thoughts
on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength - # 129
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I express on Michael’s writings in an easy manner.
We’ve
all heard that “honesty is the best policy.”
Michael takes it to a new level today!
He speaks about something that we all have had a desire to express at
some time or another…and yet, he shows us just why it is important to “speak
up” when the situation really demands it…
Day 30
Boring!
For
we do not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your
bondservants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of
darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the
knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. –II Corinthians 4:5, 6
I had a life-changing
revelation when I was talking to a man who had suffered abuse as a child that
ended in his spending nearly the next forty years in counseling. He would tell
the counselors about a beating, show the scar, they would talk to his invisible
father in a chair, and so on. I listened to this man, wondering what Jesus
would say. I am often just as surprised as those I am discipling at what the
Lord gives me, and this time when it came I leaned forward, put my hands on his
knees and said, “Listen
very carefully, for Jesus has told me what to say. It is only one word, but if
you receive it, it will change the course of your life. If you do not listen,
well, amen.” The man leaned toward me and listened intently as I spoke
the word, “Boooooring!”
He just stared at me, but again I said, “Boooooring! Your story is boring; I am bored to
death with it; I cannot stand to hear any more of it. Why have you not gotten a life? It is a
terrible shame that you were beaten as a child; it is bad that it ruined the
first twelve years of your life. However, it has become a tragedy because you have allowed it to steal
another forty years. How long can you go on talking about the first
twelve years of your life? It is boring; you are boring!” I explained that I
was sick of myself, too; I was bored with Mike. I am exhausted from thinking
about myself, who did what, said what, reacted, rebuked, hated, or liked me. Self-life is all so boring.
Jesus is not boring. I had challenged myself to go one hour without thinking
about myself. It took months, but I finally did it. Then I did it for one day
and finally one week, the best week of my life; it added much to rather than
detracting from my life, and I had a great time. I challenged him that I, too,
would be bored and depressed if all I did was think about him. Again, the advice was to get a life,
get Christ’s life. As I was talking, his wife interrupted and said to
him, “Go look in a mirror! You will be surprised with what you see.” He did and
discovered that he was smiling. He acted shocked and said, “Why would I be smiling?”
The answer was simple, “For the first time in over forty years your eyes are on
Jesus.” There is
nothing His nearness will not cure. To be happy one must give himself to something greater than
himself. The thing far
greater than man is God.
Yellow – VIP, Very Important Point Green
– IT, Incredible Truth
Red – GP, Greatest Promises
Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches Pink
– PV, Priceless Victory
How many people do you know that have lost many years of their life
because they are still talking about, still living, some event or person that
did something to them years and years before?
What percentage of Christians do you suppose are living like this?
And the tragedy is those years have been stolen from them. That Jesus Christ could have overcome that
“event” or “person” way back when…
And God’s answer to the matter is Christ’s life is supposed to be our
life. And He was never defeated by any
attack, any offense. I remember when
Michael introduced me to Psalm 119:165…never again, by the grace of God, have I
allowed something or someone to “offend” me.
That is what Christ’s life is all about.
And it is not that His life is “available” to every Christian…it is that
His life IS our life. At least that is
what God has said: Colossians 3:4.
We are either living the Truth, or not.
God, give us the grace to live Your Truth.
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