A Christian is a person indwelt by the Living Lord Jesus
Christ and who has chosen to experience His Tested Proven Life. This tested
proven life is "The Christ Life." As a Christ-one, (Christian)
participates with Christ as their life, they give "testimony" to the
living reality of or identity of, who they are joined to spiritually. Spiritual
Union defines "who we are" (our identity).
The dictionary defines the word "testimony" as;
"evidence or proof by the existence or appearance of something." The
origin of the word comes from a Latin word which means "witness."
When a Christian chooses to participate by faith with the
Tested Proven Life of Jesus Christ in the midst of temptation, they personally
experience God's Grace which becomes their testimony and thereby are witnesses
of His Life. A Christian is a witness of grace. Grace is God's activity or God
at work. A witness of Jesus Christ gives evidence to the work of Christ in and
through them by faith. As the Christian walks by faith, (being receptive to
God's grace activity) they give testimony to the existence of the Divine Life
within.
Testimony is the evidence/proof of Christ as our life! You
are a "witness" of Christ's outlived life "in you"(spirit),
"as you" (soul), and "through you" (body). This was the
Apostles Paul's prayer for us in 1 Thess. 5:23.
Jesus said, "you will receive power when the Holy
Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be "My witnesses" both in
Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the
earth" (Acts 1:8).
Each day we have the opportunity to be His witnesses in
every choice we make.
The glorious privilege of the Christian is to allow the
character of Christ to be expressed through our behavior, as a testimony of His
grace, working in you, as you, and through you to the glory of God. May our lives
give witness to Jesus Christ!
What are your choices today giving witness to?
"All my life I have lived by a set of rules and standards that I thought was what God wanted for me. And all for the cause of DOING GOOD! So God could “get the glory”! Little did I know that He doesn’t need my GOOD, he needs my HEART. For the first time in my life, thanks to this new revelation, I can honestly say…I AM A TOTAL FAILURE. I had never known what was at the root of my ‘doing’ and what I was missing. The problem was that I was at the center of my own universe and I had missed what it really means to be a Christian and that is CHRIST IS MY LIFE. There was no FREEDOM because I was bound to religion and its activity.
