Imagine walking into the belly of an institution that has every power to disparage you, ruin your reputation, torture your body, and take your life. Not only do you know it but you WILLINGLY volunteer for the mission.
Imagine sitting through a person’s every in-depth detail of pain and agony, WILLINGLY sympathizing and even choosing to experience with them every emotional, mental, and physical anguish of every single affliction available to humans.
Once you go through and emerge from all that, you fear nothing.
This is why Jesus Christ is powerful and unshakeable.
There are people who see him as weak and docile. They see the famous destruction of his body as evidence of his fragility and the glorified story of his resurrection as myth. To believe otherwise would necessitate confrontation with feelings and thoughts that lead them to that conclusion.
Jesus Christ is a solid strength that no person, demon, or evil can defeat. He has conquered sin and death, lays out the path for all and any to practice the same, and prepares the plan to re-establish a worldwide kingdom of compassion, collaboration, and freedom. What else greater is there? What has He to fear?
Christ has every advantage over the enemy. Any other entity still holds a weak link inside: an emotion, a doubt, an experience they have not had or have not conquered. Christ has done it all and they cannot compare to his victories. This is why demons recoil and reluctantly depart from him when he commands it. He knows their weak links, and they know he knows them.
For this reason, Jesus does not come to battle for us in rage or bravado. He shows up sure, confident, and steadfast with the power of the sun. As heat disinfects, as light casts away shadow, so Christ comes not with weapons but with the unconquerable brightness and intensity of wholeness. Who can fight the sun?
When you and I practice becoming more like Jesus Christ, we experience changing inside in which we become more courageous in the face of Opposition. When we show up, the enemy knows they have a challenge.
We do not show up in ego and cockiness of our own power, for the power they fear is not ours, and the power doesn’t show up in us because of our skill. The power shows up through our WILLINGNESS to reflect Christ’s countenance, to take his name upon us, and to allow the victories he has conquered within us to transmit through us.
Power is not acquired. True power just is.
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