Risen Life

Today's daily devotional from the "God Calling" website brought me to tears, because it spoke right to the place my heart resides. I often feel despair, distrust, depression, sin, fear, and lack of purpose hindering me from truly claiming the life that Christ bought for me--the Risen Life. I do want to arise to beauty, holiness, joy, and peace, like the author says. It is what I need in my life at this very moment. He has the power to move and work within me if I open myself up to it. I pray that God's love, light, and joy flood my heart and my life, and that it may overflow to others and shine into their lives as well, so that others may know the beauty, joy, and love of Christ. 

"Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee." Isaiah 60:1

The Call comes on this My Day for all who love Me, to arise from earth-bands, from sin, and sloth and depression, distrust, fear, all that hinders the Risen Life. To arise to Beauty, to Holiness, to Joy, to Peace, to work inspired by Love and Joy, to rise from death to Life.

Remember that death was the last enemy I destroyed. So with death My Victory was complete. You have nothing then to fear. Sin, too, is conquered and forgiven, as you live and move and work with Me. All that depresses you, all that you fear, are powerless to harm you. They are but phantoms. The real forces I conquered in the wilderness, the Garden of Gethsemane, on the Cross, in the Tomb.

Let nothing hinder your Risen Life. "Risen with Christ," said My servant Paul. Seek to know more and more of that Risen Life. That is the Life of Conquest. Of that Risen Life was it truly said: "I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me." Fear and despair and tears come as you stand by the empty Tomb. "They have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him."

Rise from your fears and go out into the sunlight to meet Me, your Risen Lord.


"That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death." Philippians 3:10