2 Timothy 2:11-13 (NKJV) 11 This is a faithful saying: For if we died with Him, We shall also live with Him. 12 If we endure, We shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He also will deny us. 13 If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.
These three verses, if we consider them seriously, will cause us to look at our relationship with God in a new way.
Why?
Because they lay the groundwork for almost every aspect of that relationship with a no-holds-barred honesty and candor that we often don’t like to hear. They make us think and consider our walk with God in a way that gives us no opportunity to make excuses or to justify our shortcomings.
This is not to say that God lacks compassion or mercy, because that would be 100% false. But it’s a reminder that we are responsible for our destiny inasmuch as we need to walk out our faith each and every day.
Let’s take a look at verse 11 today, and then we will cover verses 12-13 the next two days.
If we died with Him, we shall also live with Him.
If we live out our earthly lives pursuing Him and all that He wants for us, even death cannot separate us from Him. We live with Him, we die with Him. And though we may die, if we live with Him in this life, we will also live with Him in eternity.
But more than that, if we live with Him here, we truly live. Our lives are full and meaningful. Not in a mushy, emotional sort of way, but in a way that we can only see and understand by His spirit.
A life lived with (and for) Him is a life with joy, contentment, victory and much more.
It doesn’t depend on wealth, social status, career success, physical appearance, IQ level or any of the other earthly factors that so many of us look at.
It only depends on us taking the time to spend with Him, that we might know Him in all His fullness.
Philippians 3:10-11 (NKJV) 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 11 if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808
401-315-0902
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