Today, we're going to take a posture of peace by becoming fully convinced that we are fully loved.
Hi, I'm Lindsay Van Zale.
Posture is a podcast that serves as a short audible fist bump to remind you that God is
in everything.
Together, we're going to be emboldened to take a daily posture of perfect peace.
In John chapter 15, verse 9, Jesus says,
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.
Now abide in my love.
This week as a posture community, we have been talking a lot about the new us, how the
finished work on the cross means we died, okay?
We are dead to sin, and we were raised with Christ with a new nature, alive to God.
And so we've been exploring this new nature, this identity of Christ, and all of the implications
of what that means for us today.
You know, Jesus gave the Godhead their dream back, which was a perfect relationship with
you.
Through the finished work of the cross, Father God put us into Christ and Christ in us so
that he could love us the same way he loves Jesus.
Let that sink in for a moment because that is huge.
You are loved exactly how Jesus is loved.
Romans chapter 8, verse 1 says,
There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
You know, the enemy, Satan, wants us to live fully condemned.
But Father God wants us to live fully convinced.
Convinced of what?
That we are completely, unconditionally, radically loved by him the same way he loves Jesus.
Skipping down in chapter 8, we hit verse 31, and it says,
What then shall we say to these things?
If God is for us, who can be against us?
He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with
him graciously give us all things?
Who shall bring any charge against God's elect?
It is God who justifies.
Who is to condemn?
Christ Jesus is the one who died.
More than that, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God.
Who indeed is interceding for us.
By the way, did you know that Jesus is on your prayer team?
That's pretty cool.
Verse 35 says,
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword
or a global pandemic?
That's not in there, but it's kind of implied.
Verse 37.
It says,
No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
And then in verse 38, Paul writes,
For I am sure, or in other words, I am convinced that neither death nor life nor angels nor
things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in
all creation.
Just in case you think of something later, anything else in all of creation will be able
to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord.
By the way, back to Jesus interceding for us.
Did you know that Jesus is praying for you?
Do you ever wonder what Jesus is praying for you right now?
I know what he was praying for us in John 17 when he was talking to the father.
He says in John 17, verse 20, it says,
I do not ask for these things only, but also for those who will believe in me through their
word that they may all be one, just as you, father, are in me and I in you, that they
may also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
This is radical.
Listen to this.
The glory that you have given me, I have given to them, that they may be one, even as we
are one, I in them, you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may
know that you sent me.
loved them, even as you loved me."
Friend, this is who you are.
Not because of anything you have done,
but because who Jesus is for you.
Today, when the enemy comes and tries to condemn you,
shut him down with your confession of who Jesus is
and your full conviction of how much you are loved by God.
This is the new you.
The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26, 3.
And in Hebrew, it is shalom, shalom,
meaning complete wholeness.
Nothing missing, nothing broken.
This is who you are in Jesus.
Let's declare this together.
Today, I am kept in perfect peace.
With my whole heart, I trust the Lord.
I am strong, I am victorious, I am whole.
Remember, friend, you are a living testimony
of Jesus' ultimate win.
Not because of anything you did,
but because of what he did for you.
With every step you take today,
you're putting Jesus' victory on display
and Satan's defeat on replay.