Ed Christian's World

Life In The Sun…

The sun is far out in space; yet its rays of light touch us. Energy that comes from the sun goes into our skin and becomes vitamins. We get energy from our food, the plants and animals that grow from the sun.

It’s all stored sunlight. We move, think, eat, worship, and repent by sunlight. It’s amazing. We live on sunlight in one way or another. Jesus is the light of the world. Malachi 4:2 refers to Jesus as a sunrise rising. Jesus is the sunrise.

Even though He’s in heaven, He actually touches us. His light touches you, and so from Jesus’s light, we’re to find energy. His radiance is to change us and transform us. We’re to move, walk, and be filled by His light. It’s not just something nice to look at and see.

He’s the awesome one who is to transform every part of your life. Get your whole life into His light, every part of it. Not only will it be lit up, but it will also be energized. Because He is the giver of sunlight that moves and changes our life.

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. James 1:17

Dwell in the presence of the Lord today, in the Sunlight. Let His radiance touch your heart – and in the energy of His love, move forward to victory.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

The Devine Good Night…

The Hebrew holy days hold a mystery that has to do with your life. Passover, Yom Kippur, The Feast of Trumpets, Sabbath, and every holy day begins at night, at sundown. Every Hebrew day begins at sundown.

When you look at the creation, notice what comes first; not day, but night. In our lives, night comes first; then Jesus comes as the rising sun, as the dawn, and we’re born again.

A mystery that goes all the way back to the beginning that we need to move away from the darkness of night, let go of the old life and move to the light of His Word, of His presence.

It’s the story of the entire universe. Jesus died as the sun was going down. He’s the light of the world that went down that we might say goodbye to the old and rise to the new.

So, learn from the creation itself. You were from the night, but you’re not any longer. Let go of the darkness and move to the dawn in Jesus. Because in Jesus, the sun has risen, and it’s a new day.

When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.” John 8:12

Move away from any darkness in your life today and press forward. Step into His light.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

To Go Before Kings…

Scripture often shows God’s people appearing before kings and rulers; Moses before Pharaoh, David before Goliath, Esther before King Ahasuerus, Peter before the Sanhedrin and Paul going to Caesar.

God’s people are called to walk into throne rooms, approach kings, generals, and powerful mighty men. Ephesians says, “We war not against flesh and blood but against rulers and against principalities.” Rulers in the Greek is arche, which means high ranking.

Jesus said that all authority was given Him; therefore, we’re to go in the authority of the great commission. Authority in Greek is exousia, which means all ability, force, capacity, competency, mastery, jurisdiction, liberty, power, and strength have been given to you.

You can go before kings because now you have greater authority than that of kings. If you’re in Him and His will, you can do anything according to His will.

So live strong, confidently, powerfully, and authoritatively. Overcome that sin, bondage, and hindrance, whatever it is. In Jesus, you have the power to stand before kings.

What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? Romans 8:31

Today, take authority over that hindrance, that obstacle, or that ungodly thing in your life, and overcome in Jesus’s power.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

Lots For The Promised Land…

Joshua 14:1-2 says the promised land was apportioned to each one by the lot of their inheritance. Joshua 18 describes Joshua casting the lots. Lots were used on the holiest day of the year, Yom Kippur.

The Feast of Purim means the feast of lots. Lots are a picture of something happening by chance, as with the rolling of dice. Sometimes, the way things happen in the world and in your life seems like it’s just happening by chance, and you don’t see God’s purpose moving ahead.

Remember the lots of the promised land. It was through the casting of lots that they received their inheritance. If you’re following God, everything in your life, even things that look like they don’t make any sense, will be moving and working together in God to bring about God’s promises in your life.

You don’t have to understand everything. Just keep moving forward, loving God, being faithful and know that everything in your life, even like the casting of lots, in God’s love, as you follow, He will lead you to your inheritance as a child of God in the land of milk and honey.

Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5:18

Move forward today and give thanks for all the events, circumstances, and things in your life being orchestrated by God.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

You Can’t Go Overboard Enough…

Peter saw the Lord from the boat and went overboard, literally. He was perfectly in God’s will, stepping out in faith with his eyes on the Lord. Often, when you’re about to step out in faith for God, friends and family say, “you’re going overboard.”

But are you? You can go overboard for what you think is God’s will but it isn’t, for a doctrinal bandwagon, an idea, a movement, or a cause; but you can never go overboard enough for God. Rather, it’s when we put things or idols above God, and our passion isn’t on Him first that we’re overboard.

God, by definition, is the One you go all out for. People go crazy at rock concerts, jump up and down at sporting events, and the world thinks it’s fine, but start going crazy for God, and they think you’re going overboard.

Scripture says, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength.” In other words, go crazy for God. Step out of the boat and go all out. Because in God, the only way to go overboard is to not go overboard enough.

On the contrary, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel. We are not trying to please people but God, who tests our hearts. 1 Thessalonians 2:4

Step out in faith today, step out of your routine – into the new – and follow the Lord’s leading. Go all out for Him.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

The Well Insulated Heart…

Have you ever experienced heat loss in your home through an opening, a crack around a doorway or window? You can feel heat escaping and cold coming in. A house that has openings, or doesn’t have enough insulation will always be subject to whatever’s outside.

Luke 2:19 and 2:51 say, “Miriam (Mary) treasured these things in her heart.” She was a deep person, keeping the things of the Lord as treasures in her heart.

We must do the same to have a strong inner life. Like a well insulated house, cultivate a strong sense of the Word in your life and heart as treasures inside you. With no devotional or inner life, you’ll be like a house with no insulation.

When it’s bad, cold, or tough outside, you’ll be depressed, sorrowful, and up and down with the world. But if you keep a strong inner life, an insulated heart, inner treasures, inner relationship with God.

When the storms of life come and the cold winds of life blow in your direction, it’s not going to touch your heart, your peace, your faith, or your joy. Because you have a well insulated heart.

Truly, my soul finds rest in God; my salvation comes from him. Psalm 62:1

Hide His treasure in your heart today by memorizing a verse from the Bible – and treasuring it there.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

Cheap Wine and Priceless Love…

Song of Solomon 1:2 says, “Ki tovim dodecha mi’yayin.” “For your love is better than wine.” What’s the difference between love and wine? Wine is bought and can be expensive, but you can’t buy love, it’s free. The bride’s saying, “nothing I could buy is even worthy to be compared with your love.”

As Jesus’s bride, we’re to have the same heart. Too often, we run after things we can touch, taste, smell, and purchase. But it’s not even worthy of being compared to God’s love. The love of God is always free. There’s nothing we can do to earn it. But don’t make the mistake of thinking it’s cheap.

The love of God is free not because it’s worthless but because it’s priceless. All the worldly treasures we labor after mean nothing, compared to the love of God. The love of God is free because it’s beyond price. His loving kindness is better than life.

So, set your heart on daily receiving the treasures of heaven; the riches of His love that the world can’t contain. Then you, as His bride, can say, “Your love is better than wine.”

Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. Psalm 63:3

Today rejoice in the love of your Beloved. And rejoice in how that love is better than everything else in this world.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

Talking to God’s Answering Machine…

Have you ever talked to someone’s answering machine and in the middle of your conversation with their machine, they suddenly pick up and say, “hello?”

Sometimes, leaving a message feels easier than actually engaging in a conversation because it doesn’t require much of your heart. It’s the same with God. Some people would rather talk to God’s voicemail than to God.

To a lot of people, prayer is kind of a routine, a ritual; you just say the words, and it counts. What if you’re leaving your prayer message and God actually interrupted and started speaking with you? Many believers would be shocked because it’s easier to leave your message than actually engage with God.

But God doesn’t want you to leave messages in heaven; He wants you to have Him live. He wants you to be open to hear from Him at any moment, relate to Him, answer Him, and engage with Him.

Stop leaving messages on His heavenly voicemail. Start relating to Him live. God is alive, and He doesn’t want to deal with recordings.

Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know. Jeremiah 33:3

Set aside time today, not only to talk to God in prayer…. but to listen to Him.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

The Lamb of New Beginnings…

Here in the West, the New Year begins in January. But the Biblical New Year came in the spring Hebrew month of Nisan. Nisan means “the beginning.”

Nisan was the month of Passover; redemption from Egyptian slavery and bondage, and the rebirth of the nation to God, all by the blood of the Lamb. Nisan is also the month of Jesus’s redemption. It’s the month of His death and Resurrection; of His Passover, when the Lamb of God died to make all things new.

That’s the New Year – that’s Nisan – the Beginning. The power of new years and new beginnings doesn’t come from a calendar. It comes from the Lamb.

Do you want a new beginning and the power of newness to fill your life? Then come back to the cleansing mercy of the Nisan Lamb; your first Love.

Come as you did when you first came to the Lord and made new. For renewal, new days, new walks, new lives, new hearts, and even new years only come by the power of the Lamb.

Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Colossians 3:9-10

Spend special time today with the Lamb, and be renewed in your love for Him.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

Choosing Your Shannah…

In Hebrew, Shannah means year. It’s also the root of the word second – as in second time or a repeat of the year before.

We often live our lives just this way, continuing to repeat the same mistakes, the same habits, doing the things we know we shouldn’t, not making the changes we know we should.

We don’t go anywhere. It’s just a Shannah – a repetition of what went before. The word Shannah can also mean, ‘new’ or ‘second chance.’

Each year is given to us as an opportunity for a new beginning, to not make the same mistakes, continue the same habits and make the changes we know we should.

It’s up to you to choose which one it will be, a repeat or a second chance for something new. In the power of God he wants this coming Shannah to be something new and different.

It’s given to you as something brand-new for overcoming and for victory. In the new birth, all things will become new for you, but you need courage to break out of the repetition and into the newness of life.

We were, therefore, buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. Romans 6:4

Be courageous today and choose newness of life. Leave behind old habits and walk in the power of God.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed