[The Glory Unveiled]
“But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” Peter answered, “The Christ of God.” ( Luke 9:20 )
Every Believer needs an independent understanding and relationship with Christ. If our knowledge of Christ is hinged on someone else’s revelation of Him, such knowledge will not stand the challenging realities of life. In the verse before the focus verse, Jesus had asked His disciples, who do men say I am? And they gave diverse responses. Isn’t it amazing how much of God we seem to know through the funnel of other people’s understanding of Him. And yet we know little to nothing from personal encounters. Compared to the earlier question, when Jesus asked his disciples, “who do you say I am?” the response became fewer. Strangely enough, our spiritual houses are built on the strength of our individual understanding of who Christ is to us and not what families or friends believe. So that he told Peter that, I would build My church (spiritual house) on that revelation of who you say I am. Its always been individual. Let’s pause and examine our understanding of Christ, is it worth building anything on? Is it rock solid enough to lay the next layer of revelation on? We need to know Christ experientially. We need to know Him for ourselves because only then can He build something that the gates of Hell cannot contend against.
Prayer_Bead: Father of all Lights and illumination, thank you for the revelation of Christ to my spirit. Please unveil Christ to the eyes of my soul and give me a rock solid understanding of Him.
#GNews: Unveiling the glory of God.