Which would you rather have — all, or the “Authority” over all? Take your time. What’s taught is to get it all; what’s not taught is who controls all. Also, can all be taken away; because whomever controls all, controls the confines of the use of it, so what’s better? If you’re the one who determines who gets all, then you’re the one who determines if it remain as it was given.
The reason we may choose having it all is because most of us don’t value, under appreciate, or understand “Authority”. “Authority” gets in the way. We want “Authority” to be there, but not used on us. We live our lives to bypass the reach of “Authority”; another way of saying it is, keeping under the radar.
Many of us routinely think of how we can skate past “Authority” to do what we do that we shouldn’t — mind you; but also, to keep a thing blameless, or undetected. How can we stretch the rules, or just blatantly break them without getting caught; or, not be considerate about “Authority” at all? Is it just part of our nature like driving one mile per hour over the speed limit, or not putting the shopping cart back into the designated spot. Even so, we’re programed to grumble about “Authority”, which brings me to God.
What about God? Scripture says, we’re to do all things as if it’s for God – (Colossians 3:23) — but we don’t. Have you ever heard of the Ten Commandments? We break the Ten Commandments by design constantly, every last one of them.
God gave Man “Authority” over all things in and of this world – (Genesis 1:26-28) but we don’t properly use it — if at all. In fact, we don’t even give it a thought.
“Authority”! We don’t realize every man and women has it; all we know is that we just don’t like being required to adjust, correct, or be regulate. Besides, “Authority” should be for the control over the less important anyway some say. We can care less until we want it enforced, other than that, we’ll attempt to hide from it; being it’s viewed as something in our way.
Word of note: Have you been blind to the behavior of leaders in this country/USA these days; the so-called movers and shakers, and all their disrespect for “Authority”? It’s been said, as the leadership, so are the people. I’m drifting, so let me get back on my point.
When a policeman in uniform goes out into traffic, raises his hand, and blows his whistle for you to stop, you’ll hit the brakes. but let that same policeman be out of uniform trying to do the same thing, and he could get run over, even killed; why, the man is still a policeman. True, but the “Authority” is in the uniform.
God gave Man back the “Authority” he lost at the fall – (Genesis 3:1-24), and with it the dominion over his will to sin, and its curse, which includes, pain and suffering, sickness and disease, and life over death, by the finished works of the Cross; but because of our disbelief, and a secular worlds mindset that strengthens the ignorance of the power in God’s Word, we remain mislead casualties, and by so, kick sand into God’s face, because God’s power is in His gift of “Authority” — “Authority” over all, not possession of all – (Matthew 13:58).
Once we receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior; know and recognize who we are in Him by practicing being as He is; as it is written, “so are we too in this world” – (1st John 4:17), and understand that greater is He who is in you/me, then he who is in the world – (1st John 4:4); only then will we be fully dressed to use God’s Devine “Authority”. The devil, the curse, and all associated with it, will flee when you’re dressed in righteousness.
Unrighteousness trembles at righteousness, because righteousness is the uniform of Divine “Authority”, and the Name JESUS is the whistle that will confine it all when needed, enforce it all when needed, and loose it all when needed by the Word of God always; first and only.
Since we’re covered in Jesus’ blood — the uniform, we raise our hand against evil, speaking the Word of God, and when declaring by whose name we’re speaking – (Romans 14:11), (Philippians 2:10), and (Isaiah 45:23); proclaiming God Word over all, and at times never forgetting ourselves in the declaration; then we can have it all, by the “Authority” we’ve inherited using the name of Jesus that makes all things possible that seem impossible.
Thank you Lord, for my “Authority” over all, in Jesus’ Name amen.
Gaidi