CHIN OUT, CHEST OUT, DON'T COWER By Ap Kuch

 *CFI~WEEKLY DEVOTION®*🇺🇬

Sunday 1st September 2019

Ap.George kuch.

*Chin out, chest out, don't cower*

 _You're papa owns this world._

 🗡🗡```Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.```

1John 4:17 KJV

Jesus commissioned us to preach the gospel, pray for the sick and manifest his glory on earth. We are called to not only talk love but act love.

We are called to express the image of God.

When Christ lived on earth he revealed the character of the kingdom he was later to establish, this kingdom is here now.

 🗡```Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;.``` ..

Ephesians 5:1 KJV

The Greek word "followers" there is *"mimētēs"* which is translated "to imitate" or copy some one entirely. To act and talk like him. This is possible because we now have his life.

Well, you might say, "isn't that going too far, to say we are like God?". Our opening scripture already suggests soo!, *"as he is so are we in this world".*

David by the spirit makes an even greater utterance in that regard;

 🗡```I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.```

Psalm 82:6 KJV.

David was talking of the man in christ, notice the tenses; "ye are gods" he was speaking from a futuristic time because the spirit had taken him there. John confirms in the same order of tenses, "as he is so are we" not shall we.

He imparted his spirit in our spirits through the word.

🗡 ```And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: [23] I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.```

John 17:22-23 KJV

Here we discover that jesus gave us the same glory as the father gave him. As God's children, we are the carriers as well as the effulgence of his glory.

In simple language, a dog gives birth to a dog, a cow gives birth to a cow, a goat gives birth to a goat, *God gives birth to god's!*

Hallelujah!

*My confession*

Iam what God says iam.

Iam the effulgence of his glory, my light is shining brighter and brighter.

His grace manifests in my life in increasing measure.

In Jesus name. Amen.