WE are currently looking at Think Position, picking up our review at the third and final subheading – Position Accepted.
THERE is in my computer file an article saved from a 2001 issue of World Magazine written by Andree Sue titled, Living Logically. I have saved many of her pieces over the years; this is one of my favorites. Her premise is that many a Christian lives “illogically,” not always thinking clearly, making unbiblical and irrational decisions. She says, Living logically means talking to yourself instead of listening to yourself. And when you’re talking, talking Scripture. Jesus lived logically when in the wilderness he beat back each temptation with a quote from Deuteronomy. I have posted this piece for your edification on my website https://captivethoughts.net/living-logically/. This follows the principle of talking to yourself found in Psalm 42: 5 &11 where David says:
Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him
For the help of His countenance.
THIS is an example of Living logically … talking to yourself instead of listening to yourself. And when you’re talking, talking Scripture. Read the Psalm and you see that David is literally talking to himself, reminding himself of truth forgotten, truth needing to be recalled for comfort and strength. When David wrote, Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You. (Psa. 119:11), it was precisely that, to recall to mind the truth, principles, and promises to “live logically,” think and walk biblically. Another way of saying this is to bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ (2Cor. 10:5) – having a Christ centered World View that guides and determines what I think and do.
THIS is why Think Position is so critical. Our Position in Christ ought to our default worldview, our second nature in our every thought and heart reaction to every circumstance of life. Though our condition and circumstances constantly change and vary, our Position never does, it is the rock and very foundation or platform of stability and peace that passes our mere understanding in troubled times.
WITH that said, let us press on to Position Accepted, the conclusion to Think Position.
With highest regards in Christ,
Joe
Neh. 8:10, Isa 30:15, Job 2:10
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Chapter 56 — Think Position! – Part 4, conclusion.
Position Accepted
Through the work of the Cross, our Father has not only positionally freed us and made each of us “accepted in the Beloved” (Eph. 1:6), but has also made us “complete in him.” “For it is in Christ that the fullness of God’s nature dwells embodied, and in him you are made complete” (Col. 2:9, Wey.). It is in Him we are to abide; He is the very source of our Christian life. To abide is to remain where one has already been enlivened and positioned. It is in Him that we rest, fellowship, and grow—far above all.
Where is the Lord Jesus today? He is risen and set at the Father’s right hand (Eph. 1:20, 21). It is when the Christian understands his death-position that he is enabled to see his life-position in the risen Lord Jesus. Therefore he counts himself recreated, alive unto God in Christ Jesus (Rom. 6:11b).
The believer’s enlightened faith follows effortlessly, because he now sees himself exactly where he has been positioned all along: “For ye died [unto the old self-life, at Calvary], and your life [new creation, raised in His resurrection and ascension] is hid with Christ in God” (Col. 3:3). Now he can begin walking “in newness of life” (Rom. 6:4). When the Holy Spirit gives us adequate apprehension of our risen position, we are able spontaneously to reckon ourselves “alive unto God in Jesus Christ.” Thus we are drawn to the Source of our life, and there we learn to rest—and abide above
