So, my dear Christian friends, companion in following this call to the heights…take a good look at Jesus. He’s the Centerpiece of everything we believe, faithful in everything God gave him to do. Moses was also faithful, but Jesus gets far more honor. A builder is more valuable than a building any day. Every house has a builder, but the Builder behind them all is God. Moses did a good job in God’s house, but it was all servant work, getting things ready for what was to come. Christ as Son is in charge of the house. (Hebrews 3: 1-6)
Beloved, these scriptures truly resonated with me, because we say that we are Christian (Christ-like), we say we are god-fearing, and that Christ Jesus is the head of our life; and all this and more is exactly what our thinking should be. But how many of us have had a hard time holding on to our confession, when the testing comes? How many of us realized that before God can entrust us with His plan for our lives (his purpose), we would have to show ourselves approved before God. We will have to endure hardship as a faithful soldier of God’s Army. Think it not strange when you find yourself going through a wilderness testing. The Word says if we can only keep a firm grip on this bold confidence (that Christ as Son is in charge of the house). (Hebrews 3:6)
Beloved, we are the houses! That is why the Holy Spirit says; today; please don’t turn a deaf ear as in “The bitter uprising,” that time of wilderness testing. (Hebrews 3:7). The Word says to take a good look at Jesus. What does the bible tell us about Christ during those 30 years prior to His ministry. In Luke1: 80; 2:52 it says, “And the little boy grew and became strong in spirit; and he was in the deserts (wilderness) until the day of his appearing to Israel {the commencement of his public ministry}. And Jesus increased in wisdom (in broad and full understanding) and in stature and years, and in favor with God and man. Therefore beloved, if it took Jesus 30 years to prepared for His 3 years ministry; we must get out of the instant society mindset, that is, God will instantly grant us our ministry, without doing it his way, “without preparation”.
Beloved, do not be amazed and bewildered at the fiery ordeal which is taking place to test your quality, as though something strange (unusual and alien to you and your position) were befalling you. {Therefore beware} brethren, take, care, lest there be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart {which refuses to cleave to, trust in, and rely on Him}, leading you to turn away and desert or stand aloof from the living God. But instead warn (admonish, urge, and encourage) one another every day, as long as it is called Today, that none of you may be hardened {into settled rebellion} by the deceitfulness of sin {by the fraudulence, the stratagem, the trickery which the delusive glamour of his sin may play on him}.
Therefore, Beloved, humble yourself “under the might hand of God, that in due time He may exalt you.”
Scriptures References: Heb3:12, IPeter 5:6
Sister Betty, in Christ, the Centerpiece of my faith.
