HOW DO YOU THINK?

Why do I keep "harping" on knowing who we are in Christ?

It's fundamental to human nature to act as we think we are, that's why! Remember how Hagen, our little eaglet, thought he was nothin' but a stinkin' ole buzzard? And if we believe we're nothin' more than a dirty, rotten sinner saved by grace, we're gonna act like a dirty, rotten sinner! But once we see ourselves as children of the King, as royalty, as the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, we'll begin to experience the spiritual freedom the good Lord intends for us to enjoy.

It's so easy to mope around in spiritual self-defeat. (Remember Sister De-Feat in our blog on "What The Christian Life Is Not?") Because we haven't learned who we are spiritually, we crawl around on the ground with turkeys, disappointed because there isn't more to this Christian life than what we're experiencing.

Know why you are so disappointed? It's because you've been "turkey-ized". No eagle has ever been happy living as a turkey. And neither will you! It's against your nature.

The enemy has imposed a lot of guilt and condemnation upon the Church, and it's time we fight back. it's time we claim our rightful place and privileges in Christ.

And so I challenge you again to find out who you are in Christ Jesus. When you do, like Hagen, you'll rise out of the woods of defeat and fear and soar into the heavenlies. You'll rise above the little storms of life that drive turkeys into hiding and find, instead, that those storms will simply drive you into the arms of God!

I urge you to rise in freedom and begin to soar in the spiritual heights you were created to soar in. Life will never be the same for you again.

Preacher's Kid