If you’ve experienced a full immersion baptism, I know you came up from the water feeling completely changed. In that moment you were, without question, one with God. For most however, that complete transformation gradually fades as the enemy uses the challenges of this world to chip away at your new connection to God. Our enemy is real and he is all about driving a wedge between believers and God. Regardless of the enemy’s persistent effort, we are safe in the hands of Jesus.
“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.” John 10:27-30 (NASB)
The power of God overwhelms the enemy and no measure of temptation can overcome a true believer’s connection to Jesus. The good shepherd fulfills his mission to safely preserve all those the Father has given him. Through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, believers are bound together in loving cooperation, following the teaching of Jesus. This single mindedness establishes believers as the family of God.
“I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.” John 17:20-21 (NASB)
As per the request of Jesus to his Father, believers are one spirit with him. Those of us who are followers of Jesus are connected to the ultimate power of the universe in a very intimate way. There is nothing in this world that can sever that connection.
“But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.” 1 Corinthians 6:17 (NASB)
When the awesome power of God is connected together with every believer, there is absolutely nothing that can’t be accomplished. That kind of total unity should be our mission. We are each individually responsible for our part of this connection. We must push away all distraction and seek to be one with God.
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