Real Empowerment

Real Empowerment

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

Our text, which we began to consider yesterday declares, ‘Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power….’ We considered yesterday that Christ has a people. They are the elect of God.  The difficulty is that these people, though they be the elect of God are, ‘by nature the children of wrath;’ they are ‘dead in trespasses and sins,’ and completely unable. Christ does not leave them so. Our text says, ‘Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power….’ What does that mean in spiritually real terms? It means that Christ empowers those people in His ‘day’ or appointed time. In practical terms, it means, as Ephesians declares, ‘for by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.’ Salvation is, from start to finish, the work of God. It is the empowerment of God that regenerates us. It is the empowerment of God that grants us regeneration unto life; that gives us faith to believe. It is the empowerment of God that sanctifies us; that ‘renews us in the whole person after the image of Christ and enables us to die more and more unto sin and to live unto righteousness.’ It is the empowerment of Christ that gives us grace to live; that will give us grace to die; and that will raise us from the dead at the last trumpet. Christ well said, ‘without me, you can do nothing.’ Christ is the Great Empowerer of all of His saints in every age, and unto the end of this age. ‘Your people shall be willing in the day of Your power.’

Our most Holy and Empowering Christ,
we rejoice that You enable us to do what we could never do apart from You.
We rejoice that you give power to the faint, and raise up Your Church,
to assault the very gates of Hell.

Tomm Tice
where the Bush is Burning.