Jesus is Your Enabler

            Zechariah prophesied about Jesus (Luke1:74-75)  as our Savior He would “…enable us to serve Him without fear in holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.”  Jesus didn’t come to condemn but to save.  He is the first place to run to when you fail.  He will enable you to live in holiness. 

            “His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness.” 2 Peter 1:3.  The key to Jesus being your enabler is your knowledge of Him.  I’m not talking about the mental ascent as when one knows the multiplication tables and when Columbus sailed the ocean blue.  I’m referring to a personal intimacy with Jesus.  Remember this salvation business was all His idea.  He found you; you didn’t find Him. Well, same thing goes for intimacy.  This is His idea.  Jesus desires intimacy with you.  Yes, you.  All He’s waiting for is you to agree.  What in the world could possible hold you back from such an invitation?  What ever it is dump it like you would the unidentifiable frig fur from last month’s culinary delights.  You see you are wanted; you are desired.  And not just by a nobody, but the Somebody of the universe.

            The problem with this wonderful intimate relationship with your Creator who lavishes love on you, is that He requires obedience.  We’ve in the past always liked having ourselves as the head honcho.  Now He requires that place in our lives.  This is where we slip back into munching frig fur.  We forget that He loves us and not just a little, but lavishes His love on us.

 O’ Lord give me revelation of Your abundant love for me. I know that I have reverted to the sinful habits of my old dead ways instead of embracing the truth and power of the Gospel that has set me free from slavery to sin.  Forgive me.  Enable me to truly understand that in love You predestined me to be adopted as your child through Jesus Christ, in accordance with Your pleasure and will. (Ephesians 1:5)   How great is the love the Father has lavished on me, that I should be called a child of God!  And that is what I am. (1 John 3:1)  I thank you, Jesus, that no force in heaven or on earth can separate me from Your love. (Romans 8:39)  And I thank you that the Power to accomplish this is the same Power that raised Christ from the dead!  Hallelujah! Glory to God! Amen!