They Reign
A friend wrote this to me in an email the other day. “Last night I spoke to a couple my age from Biguramah church (not its real name). They have had such pain with their son’s partner and ongoing issues that affect the well being of their grandchildren. But in conversation they can only appeal to words like belief, church, principles and things like that.”
Principles, values and ethics are useful things around which to build our lives. But in themselves they have no power to enable us to adhere to them. They can help to make us ‘decent’ but they cannot give birth to a son of God. ‘Beliefs, church and principles’ can offer a template to which we can exhibit some outward conformity but they have no power to make us Godly on the inside. In Jesus the Father offers us more than moral conformity. Jesus is our Way of becoming a son of God.
There’s something special about sons. They reign. Even when they fall they rise again.
There’s a potency about sons. They have victory over sin, authority over circumstances and victory over the Enemy. But a son lives in Jesus to such an extent that Jesus is his life. Having moved from the old testament into the new a son has died to the letter to be re-born in the Spirit and now lives in the Spirit of sonship, day by day casting off the body of death and finding resurrection and supremacy over all things in Christ.
The adventure of a life in Christ is the adventure of an emerging son. Having cast off the carapace of religion, we step into the Person of Jesus and begin life in the Spirit. Alive in the Spirit we live boldly in the body and victoriously in the world. Live in the old covenant and you are at the bottom of the heap. Circumstances and devils have every right to rule over you. Live in Christ, sit at His feet and things are much different. Daily developing into the fullness of Christ you begin the process of putting all things under your feet. As a kingly priest you begin to reign on the earth.
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