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[For clarity to those of us who don't think well in the KJV grammar, I've substituted the NKJV.]

"In 2 Peter 1:3-4a we read,

"His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of Him who called us by His Own glory and goodness. Through these He has given us His very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature."

I may say to a glove, "Glove, pick up this Bible," and yet, somehow, the glove cannot do it. It has got a thumb and fingers, the shape and form of a hand, and yet it is unable to do the thing I command it to do. You may say, "Well, of course not. You have never told the glove how!" But I may preach to and instruct that glove until my patience is exhausted, but the glove, try as it will, still cannot pickup that Bible.

Yet I have a glove at home that has picked up my Bible dozens of times - but never once before I put my hand into it! As soon, however, as my hand comes into that glove, the glove becomes as strong as my hand. Everything possible to my hand becomes possible to that glove - but only in the measure in which the glove is prepared simply to clothe the activity of my hand.

That is what it is to have Christ, by His Spirit, dwelling within your redeemed humanity. You are the glove, Christ is the Hand! Everything that is possible to Him becomes possible to you, and with Paul you may say,

"I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me [I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him Who infuses inner strength into me; I am self-sufficient in Christ's sufficiency]." Philippians 4:13 [Amplified Bible]

... Canaan in the Bible is not heaven. It is not "pie in the sky when I die." It is Christ Himself, and right now, living His victorious life through me. Indeed, it is only the Lord Jesus Christ Himself who is capable of living the Christian life, as Romans 5:10 declares. He not only reconciles you to God by His death, but He saves you moment by moment by His life, that is to say, He died not only for what you have done, but He rose again to live in you, to take the place of what you are. His strength for your weakness! His wisdom for your folly! His drive for your drift! His grace for your greed! His love for your lust! His peace for your problems! His joy for your sorrow! His plenty for your poverty! This is Canaan! ...

This was God's purpose for His people then, and this is God's purpose for His redeemed people now. He desires that the natural man - destitute of divine life, the Devil's plaything, destined for hell - might become the spiritual man - filled with the Spirit of Christ, alive unto God as an instrument of righteousness, destined for heaven!"

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As a Brit, Maj. Thomas packs a page into a paragraph, but keep reading this excerpt until you get it: "You are the glove, Christ is the Hand! Everything that is possible to Him becomes possible to you."

As one glove to another, let Jesus clap His Hands!

"Love, grace, truth, and Life ...
It's all about Jesus!™"

Bud

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