Fix Your Eyes on Jesus - Focus On Who Christ Is In You!
by Christine Caine
The Bible is full
of ordinary people whom God called to His divine relay.
Which of them, in their power, their resources, or their
ways had what was
required to do what God called them to do?
Not one.
Moses was told to
lead his people from slavery, then was caught between
Pharaoh’s chariots & the Red Sea. Joshua was told to
conquer the walled city of
Jericho armed with nothing more than trumpets. Gideon was
told to defeat
the massive Midianite army after the Lord purposefully
shrank his army from
32,000 men to only 300 armed with nothing more than
trumpets, torches & empty
jars. Peter was beckoned by Jesus to get out of the boat
& walk on water.
Are you catching
the theme here?
Just like these
people, when we learn to focus on who God is rather than on
what we are not, we see that it is God who is working in
us to do the very
thing He has purposed to do in our lives. As we learn to
run the race,
accept His batons, & submit to His training, God’s
work in & through us is always
growing & increasing. Christ in us becomes an
unstoppable force in our
lives & is spilled out into the lives of others.
Carrying the
baton in our race is never about what we can accomplish for
God. If He wanted, God could accomplish everything on His
own without us, just
as He created the heavens & the earth. He could have
slain Pharaoh’s army
and horses in midstep & melted the chariots in the
blink of an eye. He could
have brought the walls of Jericho down as Joshua &
his men were sleeping. He
could have turned the massive Midianite army to stone
before Gideon’s men
blew a trumpet. He could have transformed the wild waves
beneath Peter’s feet
to solid rock. God’s goal in each of those cases was to
do far more than
accomplish a task – it was to build the faith of His
people. He wanted them to
grow in their experience of Him. He wanted His people to
taste His power
and be transformed by His might.
As you continue
in your race, refuse to focus on what you are not, what you
cannot do, & what you do not know. Rely on God’s
power. Rely on God’s
resources. Rely on God’s ways. Focus on who Christ is in
you. This is fixing
your eyes on Jesus!
As you carry your
baton, Christ’s unstoppable power is expanding in you.
His impact on your world is going to increase. His
transformation in you is
going to increase. Once you’ve grasped this mystery –
Christ in you – you
will transform the world through acts of love and you
will be continually
transformed on the inside to become more like Him.
Excerpted with permission from <A
0&mt=1&rt=0">Unstoppable:
Running the Race You Were Born to Win</A> by
Christine Caine, copyright 2014 Zondervan.
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