by Timothy W. Burnett
What resulted from this sacrifice and resurrection was something fantastically powerful. It became available for people to be filled with holy spirit and to receive the gift of the holy ghost. A whole new spiritual administration began, called the age of the grace of God. There is so much to learn about this new administration. And the information for that lesson is found in the Acts and Epistles.
According to Romans 8:37, God's children are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. The context is seen in verse 35, "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shal tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness or peril or the sword?" Nothing can separate us from God's love that was shone through His son Jesus Christ. The above situations pretty much cover every challenging area of life. In all these areas we are not...I repeat...not...counted as sheep killed all the day long (Romans 8:36)! But it does not make us super-humans.
In Luke 17:11-19, we learn a beautiful lesson that should quickly set things in proper spiritual perspective. While on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus was confronted by ten men who were afflicted with leprosy. They cried out, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!" Jesus replied, "Go show yourselves to the priest." As they left, the leprosy left also. They were completely cleansed. Then one of the ten came back after noticing what happened, and glorified God. He fel with his face to the ground and thanked God in front of God's son Jesus Christ.
Jesus noticed that only one returned to glorify God, and told the man to stand up and go his way knowing that his believing had made him whole. Of the ten, only one had the heart to delay his trip for a moment to glorify God in prayer before Jesus Christ. The result was that he was made whol. All ten may have been cleansed, but only one was made whole. He had a humble and thankful heart for God's powerful ability to heal him through Jesus Christ. The others did not remember to thank and glorify God for what was done. But that one man understood his personal weakness and fully recognized God's power through Jesus Christ.
What a great lesson for us as we learn to be God's beloved children during this age of God's grace.
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