Tuesday’s Blog – Positionally Seated

Daily Devotional - Positionally Seated

Tuesday’s Blog – Positionally Seated

Proverbs 10:31-32 – The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut out. The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked what is perverse.

Bible Challenges and Comments

In a room full of people the roar of perverse conversation is loud and overpowering. The work place, in the school, at any sporting event and in the home of the unbelieving (Proverbs17:1) there is little quietness because of the strife. 

God has called us out of the world of strife and placed us in the kingdom of Christ. Note Colossians 3:1-3. If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your affection (peaceful position) on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Andrew Murray in his book; The Inner Life makes this thought clear that if we have an audience with God through Christ, then we must also have a spiritual sense of need to live in the place He has for us in Christ. Positional sanctification sets us apart from the perverse audience of the world and to step into this unacceptable perverseness of the tongue and action is to reject the positional grace of God.

I suppose it is difficult to realize the purity of being in Christ; I mean, how often we do we think about the holiness of Heaven and our position in Christ. Jesus Christ is seated at the “right hand” of God. Look! If the throne room was an automobile and Jesus was driving and you are His passenger in the front seat, you would be sitting at His “Right Hand”. Or more biblically stated; you are sitting with Christ in the “holy of holies”.

How is it then we seem to make ourselves comfortable in both places? From one side of our life (the flesh) we find ourselves with the talk of the world and covet their conversations, this is idolatry; Colossians 3:4-6 and this causes God’s wrath to come on the sons and daughters of disobedient believers. The result is that the world sees God’s children the same as they see them self and our testimony as a child of God is ruined.

The struggle of being in Christ or in the flesh is strong and one reason it is so strong is that our view of our position in Christ is upward, sort of like always striving to be there with Him (in the flesh) and of course that will never happened… “Flesh and blood does not inherit the kingdom of God” 1 Corinthians 15:50. 

To correct this, we must do as the apostle Paul teaches in Colossians Three and simply be seated with Christ at His Right hand. The view from the Top is to be positioned from above where Christ is; rather than fleshly positioned or earthly aware. In this position you and I cannot see the next devilish punch or where it is coming from. The character of a heavenly position is Colossians 3:12-17.