How do we have the Holy Spirit power without knowing God through intimacy? We don’t. . . No intimacy, no power to press through life’s toughest situations. We can have all the knowledge of the bible, but unless we have that intimate relationship with God that He desires of us, we won’t have the power to get through.
Philippians 3: 10-11, “I want to know Christ-yes, to know the power of His resurrection and participation in His sufferings, becoming like Him in death, and so, somehow attaining to the resurrection from the dead. That scripture tells me that Paul was a “Soul on Fire” for Jesus Christ. He knew the price that was paid to free him of his sins. He would never be satisfied just staying an average follower and either should we.
2 Peter 1: 8-9“For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.” This scripture basically tells us if we fail to develop, we must have forgotten the price Jesus paid for our sins.
The 2000 years since the resurrection of Jesus Christ, has brought many changes in the hearts and souls of people who say that they are followers of Jesus. Some are satisfied being pacified, some stay milk fed, and some are still very hungry for the meat and potatoes of God’s word.
Sooner or later a pacifier doesn’t satisfy the babies hunger. They will cry for the bottle. Then the milk doesn’t satisfy them anymore and they will cry out for solid food. This is how it should be with our Christian walk. On fire, not satisfied with just being pacified. Pacified works for a little while as long as life throws you no curves. But that just isn’t reality. Life will take you through tough circumstances and you will find yourself crying out for more answers. In order to get more answers and understanding, you will need to know God more. That pacified relationship that you have with God now, will have to become more intimate to know Him better. That is the only way to have the power of the Holy Spirit that Paul is talking about in this scripture, and God wants us to have it! He is a good God and offers us all we need through His Spirit.
Paul wanted to know the power that raises things up that are dead. Our suffering situations should cause us to become more intimate with God. No one wants, or asks for suffering situations, but there is nothing like knowing God as you go through them.
I don’t want to be an average Christian. I want to be a “soul on fire.” One who begins to feel the power, and see the Joy, inside every trial, James 1: 2-4.
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Kim
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