Pam Padgett ... teacher
In Matthew 2, we're told a prophecy given about Jesus …
Matt. 2: 6 And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.
It stood out to me that Jesus came to rule the people of God. While considering this, I recalled that those who are called by God were chosen beforehand, predestined, to be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ … conformed to the Word of God.
Romans 8: 29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
As we meditate in and obey a word given to us by the Holy Spirit, that word begins to rule in our life. Ruling over our own desires. Ruling over ways of this world, even overcoming ways we have been taught since childhood. Ruling over tricks and deceptions of the devil. And, as each word given us rules in our lives, we are conformed to the image of Christ and cleansed, so that we might be presented holy and without spot before God.
Ephesians 5: 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.