That Same Power Is In You!
"if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus
from the dead dwells in you, He who
raised Christ from the dead will also
give life to your mortal bodies
through
His Spirit who dwells in you."
Romans 8: 11
You arrive home from work on
Friday
evening and carelessly leave the car
door ajar, so the interior lights remain
on. You don’t drive car on
Saturday,
but Sunday morning you discover
a dead battery.
Only one
thing will help: an infusion of
electrical power from another source—
provided by your neighbor with his
jumper cables.
Paul writes that before knowing Christ we are
“dead” in our sins (Ephesians 2:1, 5). But
then
he writes that the same God that raised Jesus
from the dead “will also give life to your mortal
bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.”
That will happen at the resurrection, but it
also happens now
as our spiritually dead
bodies are given infusion of God’s power
to bring us to new life (Romans 8:10-11).
Depend—believe, trust—that you have
power from God now, by His Spirit who
dwells in you, to overcome every
challenge.
"Christianity is not merely
a program of conduct; it is
the power of a new life."
Benjamin B. Warfield