Walking in Victory – or not.

I’m becoming slowly convinced that Christians (self included) aren’t walking in the fullness of the victory that Christ won for us on the cross.

If Jesus disarmed principalities and powers, made a public spectacle of them and triumphed over them on the cross (Col. 3:15) – and if we are seated in heavenly places with Him (Eph. 2:6) – and we’ve been delivered from the kingdom of darkness (Col. 2:13) – and we have power over all the power of the enemy (Luke 10:19) – and we’re endued with power from on high (Luke 24:49) -

WHY are Christians sick, sad, sorry slaves to sin, circumstance, and the devil?

I think it’s because we’re convinced of our own powerlessness, and we’re not CONVINCED of Christ’s victory. We give intellectual assent to salvation – Jesus paid for my sins, that means that I don’t have to and I’ll go to heaven when I die – without fully understanding what that means in the here and now. We’re not convinced of His glory or His supremacy. Oh, sure, we SAY we are (and to say otherwise would be blasphemy, right?). But do we live like we’re convinced?

Here is my prayer for today…

“…that He would grant you (and me), according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height — to know the love of Christ which passes all knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” (Ephesians 3:16-19)

I keep coming back to this passage in my devotional time because I don’t think I’ve gotten it yet (which is different from not having it – if that makes sense!).

The width. The length. The depth. The height. Knowing the love. Filled with all the fullness.

The victory.