“Know Your Place”

As Christians I think it is sometimes easy to overlook or forget our true position in our good fight of faith. It is easy to fall in line with the message the world gives that we are unworthy with insignificant desires. As a believer we have been set apart, placed in a position of authority and no longer under our sin or shame. However, we continue to approach the Throne of God with the same timidity that we have been delivered from. As most often occurs I have gotten a glimpse of this truth through a film I enjoy; "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian." I think a lot of the time our hesitation to approach God or even circumstances boldly is due to the fact that we just do not know our place, for whatever reason.

There is a scene in the film of "Prince Caspian" where the kings and queens of old approach the location where they are to gather and come up with their battle strategy. When the kings and queens approach, the Centaurs line up and raise their swords in a bridge to show respect for the kings and queens as they walk in. Prince Caspian being with them, who is also noble and called to do great things, hesitates to walk with the kings and queens. My thought is that the kings and queens entered in walking tall because they knew their place. Prince Caspian did not enter boldly or walk tall as he had yet to learn his place.

As believer's we need to know our place and walk tall, enter in to His presence boldly. God has called us His righteousness once we are in Him. He called us to be the head and not the tail, above and not beneath. We see many biblical examples of what it is to walk boldly with God yet somehow we minimize ourselves as not able to accomplish the same things that were done in the Bible. The reality is that Jesus has called us to do "greater things" in Him than we have seen in the Word! Doing some "greater things" will require that we know our place!!!

If we do not know who we are in God, what He has brought us out of, or where He has placed us, we will be very ineffective in the Victorious Life He has called us to. Sometimes I will take time and think of what I desire to do and then think of what it is that holds me back from doing it. One thing I know is that any time fear or a sense of inadequacy tries to creep in that, it is not from God and thus not something I should be carrying with me. As a child of God I am destined for greatness, I am called to come boldly, and I am told that greater things will come out of my life! Think for a moment what are the reasons that roll around your thoughts that ultimately keep you from knowing your place? What prevents you from doing the things you can only do from the position that God has already given you as His child? Know your place and walk boldly!