Understanding And Trusting Are Different

We often feel we need to understand… especially to understand the reason “why.”

Christians, there are so many things we will never understand… we can only trust.

Trust that the Lord is good.

Understanding has its place… but what about when it runs dry?

Trust and faith are almost the same. Trust is based in relationship… knowing someone… in this context knowing God.

Faith is birthed when we hear the One we trust speak… not so much in words but with a persuasive conviction of “this is the way, walk in it.”

Simple faith, no understanding required.

  • Mark Saunders

The Daily Battle Between The Spirit And The Flesh

As Christians the biggest obstacle to our walk with the Lord is the “old man”… that unregenerate flesh that lives with us 24/7.

Our spirits have received the life of God but our flesh… given the opportunity… is still full of the live of Adam… that fallen man we all come from.

There’s a daily battle between the spirit and the flesh. The two are in conflict.

Born again Christians, how can we can deal with this conflict? The old covenant way… Law… the new covenant way… Christ?

Law makes rules for the flesh. We’ve all been there… and failed… condemned by our failure… so we “rev up” our resolve… and bang… we fail again.

The “failing point” of the old covenant was exactly that… our inability to live by it… so Christ, through grace and mercy, fulfilled it for us to become the mediator of a new covenant. Law was nailed to the cross… Christ is the end of the law to those who believe.

A new covenant of the heart ensued… the Spirit of God writing on the tablets of our hearts… the Holy Spirit at work in us, changing our desires… but the old man… it’s still there and there’s only one way for him… that’s to “die daily”… for us to be ready to accept the work of the cross each day by being ready for “death to work in us so that life can work in others.” (2 Cor 4:12).

Without embracing the cross daily we cannot walk or live by the Spirit… we will be born again but continually carnal Christians – always failing and always discouraged.

Christ our hope… the cross, the power and wisdom of God for us!

  • Mark Saunders

Revelation 3:7-13

Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.

Revelation 3:10
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To the Church in Philadelphia

“To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:

These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you. Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.

I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name. Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.