Discover the Champion in You -- He is not You!

“Discover the Champion in You!”


This mantra opens up a popular religious broadcast every Sunday.

If any of us looking within ourselves for a champion, we will find despair or a lot of hot air:


"They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one." (Psalm 14: 3)


Jesus Christ taught that what was in man was not something worth discovering:


"But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man." (Matthew 15: 18)


We do not need to discover a champion within ourselves. All that fallen man can find is . . . a fallen man! Hardly a champion, we are dead in our trespasses.


We can receive a champion greater than anything we could ever imagine, one who can rescue us from our dead and lost state, and seat us in the highest status in the universe:


"But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,


"Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)


"And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:


"That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.


"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:


"Not of works, lest any man should boast.


"For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." (Ephesians 2: 4-10)


He brings us from death to life, He seats in high places, above all principalities and powers (Colossians 2: 15) He showers on us His exceeding riches of grace and mercy, and not only that, but He fashions us for works, which He has already set in place for us to do!


This is not self-actualization, not one bit of it! We are Christ's, and Christ is God's!


We need to know who we are in Christ:


"As He is, so are we in this world." (1 John 4: 17)


And


"I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." (Philippians 4: 13)


He is our Champion, Christ. We need to discover more of this Blessed Person, and if He does not live in you, receive Him by grace through faith, believing in your heart, confessing out your mouth that Jesus is Lord (Romans 10: 17)!