Your Choice, Your Will

Recently I read this statement: “Don't you see that all your misery comes from the strange belief that you are powerless? Helplessness is the condition of sin. No one actually believes that the Son of God is powerless, and those who see themselves as helpless must believe that they are not sons of God”. (A Course in Miracles)

Almost immediately, my thoughts went to my position in this world we live in; the “world” system. Questions like, “How can I compete with the Government, or major corporations, or the many, many powerful and rich people in our society? The world is run by powerful entities and most of them deny God. What can I do to combat their power? Who am I to think that I can take them on and win? The questions began to come at a quickening pace, and I had to take control immediately.

Have you ever been in the frame of mind where you were thinking about your place in the world? Some of us have health issues, family issues, economic and finance issues, and many other pressing things that seem to crowd in on us until we feel powerless or helpless. One little thought can trigger a whole stream of negative emotions that come streaming in. If you are human, you have those thoughts and emotions. Just think, you seem to always choose between your weakness and the Christ in you, and what you choose is what you think is real. (A Course in Miracles). A history of “living in the world” begets our being, and we exist, day to day, in a world foreign to His Kingdom. From birth, a sin-ruled nature governed our lives; we were helpless to that nature. We had no choice but to be true to that nature. Many times we wondered what was wrong. Why could we not stop? Why could we not get rid of those things that kept us bound? Yes, those feelings or emotions left us helpless to the call of that sinful nature. The more helpless we felt, the more we indulged, and the more bound to it we became. You can even go so far as to say, some of us chose powerlessness and helplessness, simply because it was the most familiar place to be, and what was familiar became a habit; and that habit then became a way of life.

Almost as soon as I thought about being powerless and helpless, a little voice said very quietly, “you are not helpless, you are not powerless; actually you have the power to shut God out of your life”. As I mused on that revelation, God said ‘it is your will that has the power. Just by your will alone, you can deny my existence and keep me from working in your life. You may acknowledge MY existence, and be born again, but still not renew your mind with the Word, and hinder the Holy Spirit from working in your life, all by your will.”

The next day the scripture verse below dropped into my heart and mind:

Acts - 17:28 "for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some

           of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’

In one enlightened moment, (because God choose you from the foundation of the world), you acted on the call of your spirit to be set free. You accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior. You made the choice! Your will was in play, and you chose to lose the prodigal nature, and put on God’s divine nature. God called and you answered. He chose and you accepted. You were born again! No longer are you a slave to sin. The sin-ruled nature has been destroyed, and the nature of love has overtaken your being. You now are in Him and have your being (share His being). No more does sin have power over you. Before that moment, sin had dominion over you. Now the tables are turned! You have dominion over sin; satan has no more power over you. Sickness and disease has no more power over you than it has over Jesus. You are a new “man” in Christ Jesus! Incorruptible and destined to victory after victory, you walk in the blessings of God that belong to you. You laugh in the face of weakness and fear. You tell them to leave and they flee in terror! Satan and all his cohorts are under your feet.

Now you understand what Paul meant when he said “what can man do unto me”. Now you understand what he meant when he said: Romans 8:11 And if the Spirit of Him Who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, [then] He Who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also restore to life your mortal (short-lived, perishable) bodies through His Spirit Who dwells in you”. It is the same Spirit that was there at the world’s foundation, hovering over the earth. That same spirit that has been the force behind every miracle ever experienced by mankind throughout history. He has been the healer of every disease that has blighted the human race, and get this, He remembers every one of them. He brings all that to you, for you to accept and use, to fulfill the great commission.

Now, are you powerless or powerful?  Are you helpless are a victor who triumphs in Christ. “Choose, once again if you would take your place among the saviors of the world, or would you remain in hell, and hold your brothers there”. (A Course in Miracles)

Just think, in the old nature you chose weakness, because you thought it was the only reality, that is, until you chose Jesus. Now you know the Christ in you is real. There may be times when parts of your un-renewed mind (the flesh) want to go back to the false safety of the sin-ruled nature, but the Holy Spirit reminds you that it has all been wiped away forever. Even if you could go back to that old nature, it is now an uncomfortable existence. It would only be in your imagination, a ghost of a memory. You have tasted the freedom of being in Christ. You have experienced His unconditional love. You have witnessed miracles by His hand. You have overcome your most powerful enemy and now he is under your feet, not for a few minutes but for eternity.

Go ahead and live your life in victory. God has laid it out. It is already done. That most powerful part of your being that God gave you as a human being is in play. It has held God at a distance long enough. Now is the time to embrace his divine nature. Use the will to open the door to His ability, His power, His wisdom, and His knowledge. “… For it is God who is at work in you, to will and to work His good pleasure”. Philippians 2:13.  Unleash the power of the “new born spirit”, that new creation, who is a million times bigger than anything your human imagination can invent. The time has come to lay down the past. It is but an illusion that keeps you in bondage to the old nature; That keeps you under the power of a darkened self, with no hope, and no contact with God.  God’s nature, God’s power, God’s victory in you. Your Choice, Your Will.