Who’s Earned Their Credentials In Your Life?
John 12:42-44 (Amplified Bible)
42And yet [in spite of all this] many even of the leading men (the authorities and the nobles) believed and trusted in Him. But because of the Pharisees they did not confess it, for fear that [if they should acknowledge Him] they would be expelled from the synagogue;
43For they loved the approval and the praise and the glory that come from men [instead of and] more than the glory that comes from God. [They valued their credit with men more than their credit with God.]
44But Jesus loudly declared, The one who believes in Me does not [only] believe in and trust in and rely on Me, but [in believing in Me he believes] in Him Who sent Me.
My mother recently came home from her job where she is a school teacher, she was relaying a story to me about one her students. The students were having a science lesson, and they were discussing weather. As she was explaining some things in the lesson, she looked outside and said that the way it looked outside that it was going to rain. One her student’s went home and was discussing the day with her parents. As her parents prepared themselves to leave for Bible study, she told her parents that my mother had said it was going to rain. Her parents retorted and said “no it isn’t.” When they all came out of Bible study later that evening, it was pouring. Their daughter turned to them, and said I told you Mrs. James was a smart woman. Her parents were tickled, because to their child, my mom could do no wrong, and her opinion and information garnered more credit than even her own parents.
All too often this is our plight. We let people garner more credit than God in our lives. If God says something we often let people come in and hold the final report in who gets the confidence and credit in our lives. We rely more upon the word of man than we do God. Man’s credentials and our relationship with them dictate our reliability on them. The oddest thing in the world is God created the heaven and the earth, and man is only a creation verses a creator and we rely upon the creation more than the creator, how dysfunctional and backwards is that? We allow the influence of flesh to supersede, the influence of the spirit. We say we want God, but yet, we seek after man’s approval, and we believe them, more than we believe God. We believe each day that we get up and go to work that at the end of a week, or two week period we will yield payment for the services we have rendered, because a man or woman told us so. But when God says, that we are an overcomer, and He has given us the victory we struggle with that. We believe a man or a woman when we take marriage vows, but when God says “I will supply ALL of your needs, we doubt, panic and enter into fear. These are just two examples but there are so many more. WE doubt God’s credentials in our life, we doubt that He is big enough, smart enough, strong enough and more than enough to take care of any situation! But He is not. When He says it, He means it and it is SO!
It is time for us to remember who has the most powerful credentials, on record. God does! He is a God that cannot fail, nor can He lie. He is the Supreme Being that holds ALL power and ALL capability and capacity within Him. Stop relying on outside sources and understand that when He says something it is based upon fact, and covenant, not just assumption and familiarity!
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