WoW….
There is so much I want to say it has been over a month since my last devotion. There are many things to write about, life, friends, happiness, love and LIVING…. Of which I am enjoying them all at this point in my life.
However I will write today about a “STOP” sign that was upside down.
The STOP sign is held to its post by 2 screws, one at the top and one at the bottom. The one at the top was removed or loose and fell out and the sign was “upside down”.
I was driving and I “stop” at the STOP sign even though it was UPSIDE DOWN! I also took a photo of this sign which is below…. What AMAZED me was that I stopped at a STOP sign that was INDEED UPSIDE DOWN…
Hmmmmmmm…. I thought!
I sat there for a few minutes looking at the sign. It INTRIGUED me that SIGN did not LOSE any of it’s POWER, PRESTIGE NOR AUTHORITY even ALL THE WHILE being out of sort, with what WE WOULD term NORMAL CONDITIONS!
I thought about THE SAINTS! People, who called themselves Christians, living the life of Christ’s power within themselves, so that the WORLD can see…. EVEN WHEN OUR WORLD IS TURNED UPSIDE DOWN!!!!
WoW…!!! The scriptures that comes to mind is…. 2 Corinthians 4: 7-10
2Co 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
2Co 4:8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
2Co 4:9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
2Co 4:10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
Do you exhibit the power of Christ through your “EVEN THOUGH’s”? Can your friends, neighbors, employers, employees, FAMILY… count on you when YOU are being ASSAILED on every hand? CAN YOU count on you?
CAN GOD COUNT ON YOU!!!!???
Do you still possess the POWER AND AUTHORITY that the “STOP SIGN” exhibited, even though it was Upside down…
STILL POTENT, POWERFUL, CHRIST-LIKE, Anointed, Appointed, Designed by GOD to show HIS AUTHORITY in YOUR life when you and LIFE are UPSIDE DOWN?
Sometime life will take us through some INTERESTING times….during those times we need to KNOW that we are still FILLED with the AUTHORITY OF GOD to make it THROUGH anything that may come our way.
SO…. BE WHO YOU ARE IN CHRIST even through your UPSIDEDOWNESS!!!
What I came to realize in this devotion, is that even if the COLOR was washed from the sign, and it was UPSIDE DOWN and there were NO LETTERING on the sign…JUST THE SHAPE ALONE would have caused me to take notice of it’s message!
Are you being NOTICED…. Even though you might be or are going through a trying time right now, YOU FEEL “GRAYED OUT” but you are living…. Can the people around you still NOTICE the color of CHRIST, the POWER of the RISEN LORD still flowing through you?
Just something to think about…. HUH?
Elder JDH ©
