Today’s Thought “What Does God Need?” G. Ward

“Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God, who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge.” 2 Corinthians 1:21-22

 

A great gospel song is sung. A tremendous sermon is preached. It’s only then we hear the term propagated in these modern times, “anointed.” Rarely will we contemplate the temporal state in existence for those great promulgators. We tag those blessed ones unjustly, delineating Anointing as synonymous with talent (i.e. entertaining). The Anointed One is Christ and in Him is all sufficiency.

Holy God created heaven and earth, parted an ocean, fed thousands on very little fish and bread, asking us to surrender to these facts, to not pay attention to a visual society that would compel us to believe (cf. Mt. 12:39). Our insistence demands a better King (cf. 1 Sa. 8). The preeminent insistence from man begins with “our terms” while His words share an end without your appropriation considered…

Happy Thursday!