That's Absurd!

I read something this morning that rocked my boat. It was a promise to me personally IF I would do something that seemed literally IMPOSSIBLE! That promise was and is so BIG that I can't let it go. I find myself saying HOW? It all starts with the concept of 'staying'.

'STAYING' is such a little-BIG word...

To stay in a state of expectancy, to stay in a committed relationship, to stay in a given place for the rest of my life is absurd! at least absurd to my way of thinking. Whose idea was this to STAY anywhere, anyway - anyhow?

A long time ago a fantastic promise was made by the most powerful man who ever walked the planet. He said if I would (or if you would) stay in a state of expectancy, in a committed relationship, in a given place I could ask for ANYTHING and I would have the POWER to receive what I asked.

OK, wait a minute, a lot of people in the past said a lot of things. How much authority and right did this individual have to make such a boast? Would it help to know this person created the universe? Would it help to know this One is the Son of God? Would it help to know that not ONE WORD He ever spoke has failed?

Of course I'm talking about Elvis. NOT! Henry the 8th. NO! Pope what's his name the 23rd. NOPE ! Who cares what anyone but God himself has to say anyway. What if we could KNOW what God had to say to us, to me, to you?

Good News! Jesus Christ came to put a face on God. He came to leave words that would never pass away or go out of date. Best of all He told us where this PLACE is that we must stay to get this promise - this absurd promise!

To my mind the promise He made IS absurd. But what does absurd mean? According to Websters Dictionary it means: ridiculously unreasonable, or incongruous: having no rational or orderly relationship to human life. So when I look out of my filtered mindset I see no possibilities of making good on this promise. How can anyone STAY in a specific place FOREVER?

Once I took the filters off and laid aside my mindsets and opinions it was like the song says, "I can see clearly now". By the way, here's the PLACE Jesus offered and the promise that came with staying there. "But if you stay joined to me and my words remain in you, you may ask any request you like, and it will be granted!"

How do I do that? Oh, here's another version of that same absurd promise: "If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever you will, and it shall be done unto you." OK, but I'm still asking how?

How does anyone stay in a person.... ?

More good news: Jesus is alive and He is in the present - NOW! As a matter of fact He is God's present to me and you right now. All I need to do to stay in Him is to believe He can keep me by His words of promise and THEN cash in on that absurd (to my MIND) promise of asking and receiving ANYTHING that's according to His will. I simply must realize if I stay in Him - I'm finally out of my mind!

Little Anthony and the Imperials had a great song in the 60's called 'GOING OUT OF MY HEAD OVER YOU'. Well, that's absurd! Going out of my head for anyone or anything is absurd. But Jesus is absurd and that's why they crucified Him! He's totally illogical!

PROBLEM! He wouldn't stay dead. He's alive AGAIN because He is God! And His promise is impossible IF I'm going to pull it off by using my head. It's about the heart: the human spirit. Jesus is good for His word IF you're willing to go out of your mind and meet Him with your heart.

THINK ABOUT IT!