In Christ, We Are "Too Much To Walk On!"

One of the most powerful exhortations I ever received as a teacher was from another teacher.

 One day, I yelled at a group of students who were not listening to me, tracing a line across my chest:

"Does it say ‘doormat’ here?"

Half-jokingly, another teacher told me: "I'll tell you what it says: ‘Too much man to walk on!’"

After reading the scripture, I discovered that this promise is open to all who believe on Jesus Christ.

Paul the apostle writes:

 "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:" (Ephesians 2:4-6)

From the moment a believer is born again, he sits currently, presently, and eternally with Christ in high places, at the right hand, the place of honor, next to God the Father.

The Gospel of John records the Forever Triumph of Jesus Christ for us:

"These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." (John 16:33)

Jesus made this calm, bold declaration even before dying on the Cross, the death sealed permanent his success and our glory!

John would write in his First epistle the blessed implications of this exalted status for all believers:

"But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

"He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked." (1 John 2:5-6)

 We should walk as He walked, which we do by the power of the Holy Spirit. How does this transfer into unending victory for the believer in Christ?

"Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. " (1 John 4:4)

 And

"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." (1 John 4:17)

 Whatever trial you are facing, whatever troubles that seem to be overtaking you, we can rest in Christ, knowing and believing that in Him, we are more than conquerors (Romans 8: 37)By the power of Holy Spirit, because of Christ's forever-atoning sacrifice, every believer can boldly say:

"In Christ, I am too much man to walk on!"