. . . the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me —Galatians 2:20
As Christians, we are new creations, with baggage. Much of the old man remains. Part of that remainder includes our moods, feelings, and emotions. These constitute our experience. We are used to relying on our experience. If I haven’t done, see or felt something, I tend to believe that it isn’t so. We must break out of our own little world of experience into abandoned devotion to Him. Think who the New Testament says Jesus Christ is, and then think of the despicable meagerness of the miserable faith we exhibit by saying, “I haven’t had this experience or that experience”! Think what faith in Jesus Christ claims and provides— He can present us faultless before the throne of God, inexpressibly pure, absolutely righteous, and profoundly justified. Stand in absolute adoring faith “in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God— and righteousness and sanctification and redemption . . .” (1 Corinthians 1:30).
If our faith in Jesus seems insufficient to replace our “experience,” it is likely we are focusing on the “wrong” Jesus. We must continually focus and firmly place our faith in Jesus Christ— not a “prayer meeting” Jesus Christ, or a “book” Jesus Christ, but the New Testament Jesus Christ, who is God Incarnate, and who ought to strike us dead at His feet. Our faith must be in the One from whom our salvation springs. Jesus Christ wants our absolute, unrestrained devotion to Himself. We can never experience Jesus Christ, or selfishly bind Him in the confines of our own hearts. Our faith must be built on strong determined confidence in Him.
Leaving experience behind we move into the new, and so much more wonderful, world of Faith in Him and we are blessed.
Nick
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