TEENS RHAPSODY OF REALITIES FOR TODAY
Memory Verse: 2 Corinthians 5:16 MSG
“…We don’t evaluate people by what they have or how they look. We looked at the Messiah that way once and got it all wrong, as you know. We certainly don’t look at him that way anymore.”
LET’S TALK
The Apostle Paul, at some point, had mistakenly thought of Christ as though He were merely an ordinary Jewish man. However, when he met with the Lord on the road to Damascus, he realised that even though the Lord had lived on the earth in a physical frame, He wasn’t ordinary. Paul’s focus, henceforth, was on Jesus as the Word of God, and he went on to be so successful in his ministry!
Sometimes, people say, “I want to be like Jesus,” what they really mean is that they want to be like the “Jewish man” who walked the streets of Galilee and Capernaum. Some even get stirred at discussions about His physical stature: His build, height, physique, looks, etc., losing sight of what’s more important—His spirituality. Beyond His physicality, you should focus on “Jesus—the Word!”
John 1:14 AMPC tells us that God’s Word became a person, and the result was the man, Christ Jesus: “And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacled (fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us….” So, see Him as the Word-incarnate; see Him as the totality of God’s thoughts, ideas, opinions, will, and emotions tabernacled in human flesh. Focus on Him as God’s perfect imprint, the icon of the unseen God, just as Hebrews 1:3 reveals.
Moreover, here’s something quite supreme: as He’s the Word made flesh, so are you an offspring of the Word. 1 Peter 1:23 AMPC says, “You have been regenerated (born again), not from a mortal origin (seed, sperm), but from one that is immortal by the ever living and lasting Word of God.”
1 John 4:17 says as He is, so are we in this world—not as He was in Galilee but as He is now—risen in glory, power, strength and excellence. You have His righteousness, life, and nature in you now! You’re the effulgence of His glory and express image of His person. Glory!
Go Deeper
John 14:8-10; Colossians 1:12-19; 1 John 4:17
Speak
I refuse to be recognised according to my physical or earthly features or nativity, but I see myself in, and through the Word. As Jesus is, in His glory, power, strength and excellence now, so am I in this world. Blessed be God!
One Year Daily Bible Reading
Revelation 6:1-17, Ezekiel 39-40
Two Year Daily Bible Reading
John 19:38-42, 2 Chronicles 25
Act
Talk to the Lord now, and thank Him for giving you the same life that He has today — the life of the Word of God (1 Peter 1:23).
