A LIFE UNSTRAIGHTENED
“So then let no one boast in men. For all things belong to you,” 1 Cor. 3:21
It is not unusual for Scripture, on behalf of believers, to
assert ownership regarding certain blessings even before they are possessed in
Christian experience. Compare 1 Cor.
3:21-22 where "all things"
are said to belong to the believer, yet among these things are some that are
yet "to come." The
ownership is legally certain, though the experience of possession may be
future.
In a sense, as far as salvation, there are no second
blessings. They are present possessions while some considered not to be blessings
such as death are yet to come but yet ours. Having not yet experienced death as
Christ has, we know not the blessing unless we perceive the blessing received
from the death of Christ. He is straightened no more (Luke 12:49-50) and after our death we shall no longer be
straightened and our full ministry capabilities shall begin as did His, all
that is a result of His passion-baptism. Christianity is not one perpetual
agony of sorrow. Your Christianity is not witnessed to by the misery of your
countenance. God has freely given "all things." All things are ours to enjoy
because He went to the Cross. It is by the way of the tree that the leaves of
healing come. It is by way of the Cross that the crown is placed upon our
brows. It is by way of the passion-baptism, that the baptism comes to us which
are the baptism of fire, of purity, of energy. Now we labor straightened but soon our limitations are gone forever to a life unstraightened.
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