Christ’s Willing People

Christ’s Willing People

Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.

Psalm 110:3

As we have considered this text for the past two days, we have dwelt upon the fact that Christ has a people. We further considered that Christ empowers those people. Today we will consider what Christ’s empowerment of those people makes them willing to do. Notice the wording of the text, ‘Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power….’ Yesterday we considered the empowerment of Christ to bring His people unto salvation and to sanctify them. In order to see how ‘willing’ these people become by the empowerment of Christ, let us observe the disciples. Who were they at the start? They were common men, fishermen, tax collectors, and political activists, to describe a few. Christ hand-picked them; spent time with them; died before them; showed Himself to them after His resurrection; ascended from in front of them; and sent the Holy Spirit to fill them. These men become the Great Lions of God. They ‘ceased not to preach and teach Jesus Christ.’ According to their enemies they ‘turned the world upside down.’ They ‘went everywhere preaching the Gospel.’ Here was a people willing to look to Christ; to love Christ; to live for Christ; to preach Christ; and to die for Christ. Their history has become the history of the redeemed of the ages. Christ empowers His People, and that empowerment makes them utterly unlike any other force upon earth. It has made them willing to go to the darkest places in the ends of the earth to live Christ in the most desperate of places, ‘Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power….’ So, Christ is able to empower us to be those people in our own day and generation.

Our most Holy and Wise God,
we praise You that You empower us to be all that You would have us to be,
that we might perform Your Will, advance Your Kingdom,
and lift up Jesus Christ.

Tomm Tice

Where the Bush is Burning