Our Strength is in Jesus

A reminder from Craig Emerson Strain

Our strength is in Jesus. Each of us must keep this in our heart.

It is so easy to put your salvation and what you believe, on what you have done or what is going on around you, but your strength is Jesus on the cross.

Your faith does not exist because you memorized a eulogy. It isn't because you count beads every morning. It isn't because you fast often. It isn't because you sing in the choir. It isn't because you have been a Christian for 40 years. It isn't because you pastor a Church. It isn't because of a ministry that you serve. It isn't because you are a member of the largest "on fire" Church in your county.

2 Cor 10:12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.

Isa 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Our strength is in Jesus.

Your strength is not because you eat Wheaties every morning. Your strength is not because you take vitamins every morning. Your strength is not because you walk 5 miles a day. Your strength is not because your cholesterol is below a certain number. Your strength is in Jesus.

Mal 3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not;

What ever you put your trust in, it will change. Jesus never changes. It is easy to say, I am a Christian because.....

I serve as an usher at our Church for the last seven years.

I got saved when I was ten years old.

I got baptized and my Pastor told me I will always be saved.

I don't drink or chew or run with the guys that do.

But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. 2 Cor 10:17-18

These are the things that we do, believe in, and count as a statement of our faith. But this isn't what we should put our trust in. Your faith is not based on what you do, but rather, what Jesus did for you.

1 Cor 15:1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
1 Cor 15:2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
1 Cor 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
1 Cor 15:4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
1 Cor 15:5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:
1 Cor 15:6 After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.
1 Cor 15:7 After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.
1 Cor 15:8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
1 Cor 15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
1 Cor 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

If we remember that Jesus is the author of our faith and not we ourselves, then our strength is great.

Heb 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Heb 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Heb 12:3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

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