Today we are going to take a posture of peace by being put in our place.
Have you ever been put in your place by someone humiliated, criticized, rebuked?
This is a very unconventional recording of posture by the way. If you can't tell it's
just a late night here in my office and I'm here on my phone but I had to get on here and just
just share a little bit with you guys. You know, I've been online a lot the last two years as I've
run posture and you know when you're online a lot you get some criticism. I'm sure you know this
even if you're just on here scrolling around and posting recipes like someone has something to say
like there's too much sugar in that recipe it's not gluten-free. I don't know it just seems like
it's the normal expectation that you're going to get criticized. You're going to get criticism.
Someone has something to say about what you have to say right and usually there's some negative
somethings in there and the comments that you receive and the direct messages that you might
get here online and maybe that's what it's like for you in real life but the point is is it's
become so normal that I think that if we're not careful we can project that type of relationship
on God. We can think you know God's just up there ready to put me in my place when I screw up,
ready to call me out when I make a mistake and what happens when we think that's how the father
you know relates to us is we don't want to screw up right. We don't want to let him down. We
definitely don't want to be put in our place by him and so it keeps us from doing anything of
significance. We don't want to try because we don't want to fail and so we live small lives
in tight places. We feel often displaced out of place not really sure what to do with the place
and space that we're in and I just want to read some truth over you today if you're feeling that
way. Galatians chapter 2 verse 20. This is what keeps me online guys. This is what keeps me coming
on here. This truth says I've been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live but Christ
who lives in me and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved
me and gave himself up for me. Yes God is very eager to put you in your place and that place
is in him through Christ. You are one with the father. You are in Jesus and Jesus is in you and
that's a great place to be. That's a very freeing place to be. It's a full and abundant place to be.
God is not up there waiting for you to screw it up so he can call you out when you get something
incorrect. He is eager to call you up into your place as a son, as a daughter of the most high
God. That is your true identity. That is your reality today right now no matter what space
you find yourself in. I'm actually going to be talking more about this this week with my mentor
Graham Cook. We're going to be running an online study. It's going to be live. It's starting on
Wednesday and we are talking all about our primary place of engagement with God. What does
this oneness with God look like? What does it mean for us in in this circumstance that we find
ourselves in or in this year of 2021 that we find ourselves in with all that's going on in our world?
So we're going to talk about that. If you're interested in joining that conversation you can
I'll leave a link below you can click on that and find out all the details to register but I just
want to encourage you today. You have a place and it's not a place of humiliation. It's not a place
of criticism. It's not a place of punishment. This is the gospel. Christ died as you and you
were raised as him. That is the life that you are living today.