At The Foot Of The Cross

Read Galatians 6:1-14

If I stand at the foot of the cross of Christ, I do not become a subjective onlooker, interested in my own desires and ideas, but I become dominantly concentrated to Jesus Christ’s desires and interests. Our Lord was not a recluse nor did He consider Himself above others. He did not cut Himself off from society, but He was inwardly disconnected from the trappings of society at all times. He was not aloof, but He lived in another world. He was so much in the ordinary world that the “religious” people of His day called Him a glutton and a wine-bibber. Our Lord never allowed anything to interfere with his consecration of spiritual energy.
The counterfeit of consecration is the conscious cutting away of things with the idea of storing up spiritual power to use at a later time. To dwell with that mindset is a completely hopeless mistake. The Spirit of God has spoiled the sin of a great many, yet there is no emancipation, no freedom and no fullness in their life. The kind of religious life that is of abundance in our society today is entirely different from the robust holiness of the life of Jesus Christ. Jesus said, “I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from evil.” We are designed to be “in” the world but not “of” the world. We are to be disconnected from the trappings of the world in principle and value, but externally we are to t=be tuned into those around us.
We must never allow anything to interfere with our consecration to the spiritual energy God placed in us. Consecration is developed by man while sanctification is performed by God. The answer to the perplexing questions in all of our lives is to ask the simple yet in depth question, “Is this the kind of thing in which Jesus Christ is interested, or the kind of thing that the world is interested?