HAPPY IN GOD

Ps.43:4 – Then I will go to the altar of God,

To God my exceeding joy;

And I will praise You on the lyre, God, my God.

To me this is the proof that there is a God, the change that happens when one is converted. This was the whole point of the calling of God in the life of His disciples. Their conversion or their testimony is what turned the world upside down. It is the unmistakable change in a person’s nature that becomes the proof of our Christian faith. We were once one kind of people and we suddenly became something else. Our testimony Is what the Lord uses to reach others for His glory. Here is how Jonathan Edwards describes conversion.

“There is no kind of love in the world that has had such great, visible effects in men as love to Christ has had, though he be an unseen object, which [is] an evidence of a divine work in the hearts of men, infusing that love into them. Thus the voice of reason, Scripture and experience, and the testimony of the best of men do all concur in it, that there must be such a thing as conversion. Reason teaches it so much that, unless we deny the being of God, we can’t avoid acknowledging such a thing as conversion. For if there be a God, he is doubtless the governor and judge of the world, and will receive his reasonable creatures there to himself to be happy in him or exclude ’em from his presence according as they are conformed to him by the holiness of their nature or not. And therefore seeing man naturally is unholy, there must be a change of nature in order to their being happy in God.”

Think about the people the Lord was working with; fisherman, street walkers, tax collectors and a political activist. These were the most unlikely candidates to change the world but that is exactly what happened. Each of their stories became a sermon to all who had known them. It was impossible to ignore the supernatural changes that had happened. Peter became the spokesman for this band of Jesus followers, one moment an uneducated fisherman and the next a preacher that was impacting the world. This is the power of the gospel, he takes the most unlikely to become His vehicles of change.