Luke 9 - Christ Equips Us.

 

Luke 9 – Christ Equips Us.

 

He will never send us out to do a task without first giving us what we need. We are prone to trust what we have, but we should trust in Him alone. If we are in His will, we will have His supply. Jesus commissioned His disciples to duplicate what He had done. To make this possible, He equipped them with both the power to do the supernatural and the authority to do His will.

 

Christ enables us. How could twelve men feed five thousand people? Only through the enabling of the Lord, for He did the miracle: they only distributed the blessing. Christ is looking for clean empty hands that He can fill. Jesus had been teaching His disciples to depend on the power and resources of God, and now He gave them a task they simply could not complete on their own.

 

Christ encourages us. If you confess Christ as Son of God and Savior, and take up your cross and follow Him, He will reveal to you His kingdom and His glory. When you experience the glory of God, the demands of discipleship become blessings that carry you along in joyful obedience. Followers of Christ must not only give up their own agenda but die to it.

 

Christ endures us. What strange words from the lips of Jesus: “How long shall I be with you and bear with you?” He must bear with our unbelief and failure, our lack of love, and our lack of dedication. Is Jesus blessing you, or bearing with you? Jesus always speaks exactly what is needed to move His followers toward greater godliness, even if it stings.

 

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