THE BRAVEST MAN EVER LIVED
Has anyone told you already or even asked you of who do you think is the BRAVEST MAN ever lived? Well for me, that bravery thing is one of the best revelations I received in my prayer closet, and that is knowing Jesus as the BRAVEST MAN ever lived. You might say that, yes, of course he is God, so he’s got nothing to fear about not even death. But have you also forgotten that the time when he lived here on earth, he was a 100% man? Yes, it’s true, he was 100% God and 100% man at the same time. So if he was a 100% man then, he felt the exact same way we feel, getting tired, hurt, can be tempted, and as humans fear isn’t an excuse. He had a body, a body like us, he was a man. Thus, he can be tempted and can feel fear. But how did he not fall into the deceptions of the enemy? Because he knows he has a father, a daddy, he has a God. Not only that he has God but he knows his God well. That’s what makes us live a way differently the way he lived before. Jesus came not only to save us but to show us how “to live a life of knowing God”.
If we go back to the bible, where stories of Jesus’ life were recorded well, we see that he knows the word, he prays, he worship God, he laid his hand to the sick and they got healed, delivered the captives, casted out demons, raised the dead and faced death. He walk on earth not fearing anything, no worries came into his heart, nothing distracted his mind. He was a man of faith and of wisdom. He lived this way not because he is God but because he knows his God well, he knows his father well. And we can live the same way if we know the God we serve too. The reason why sometimes our hearts are filled with so much worries and our minds getting distracted by the unexpected situations is simply because we only know God by what we read or hear from others. We shouldn’t be living a life with God only of what others had told us, we must live a life of true encounters with God, we must experience God, we must hear God ourselves that we may get to know him well. We must taste God personally, that we may know him personally. So that when deceptions comes our way and fear may try to attack us, nothing won’t defeat us because we know God better than the enemy does. A God who never fails, a God who is faithful and a God who fights for our battles. These are the things that the enemy cannot do, the reason why to him belongs defeat and to us belongs the VICTORY. Horray!
Not until we had tasted God’s presence we wouldn’t know what God can do and who really God is in us. We cannot live only by believing that the cake is sweet if we haven’t tasted it yet. We have to taste it that we may exactly know how sweet is the cake and what the cake can do to us. In the same way with the blood of Jesus, we cannot be cleansed with our sins only by believing that He died and shed his blood for us. We have to take it and apply it to our dirty bodies. The blood is just like soap as Reinhard Bonnke says, no matter how we know the soap can clean our dirty bodies if we don’t take it and apply it, we cannot be cleansed. What does it mean? Believing only that Jesus died for us and he is the only savior isn’t enough, we have to take him in, inside our hearts, in our lives, apply his words, let him work in us that we may be cleansed from all of our unrighteousness. Knowing him as the bravest man ever lived won’t do us any good, if we couldn’t grasp the idea that in order for us to really live like him and walk fearlessly into this world we have to follow his example, apply it in our lives, remember he did not only come to save us but “to show us how to live a life of knowing God.” Christianity is not just about salvation it also about living the same way as Jesus lived.