Jesus is My Bench Mark!

Bench mark: something that serves as a standard by which others may be measured or judged.

Jesus is my bench mark, He is my base line, He is my standard for living. I must go to Him every day to put my life and all things in it into proper focus. I must begin in Him and with Him. It is there that I receive insight and instruction for my assignment. It is there that I receive spiritual strength and motivation for the mission ahead. I dare not to move forward without His guidance and anointing. He prepares the table before me in the presence of the enemy. I shall eat and drink from His table and prevail before my enemy. Jesus is my strength and my victory. He leads me beside the still waters and restores my soul. He is my source, my strength, my redeemer and in Him I will trust today and every day as Christ Jesus, my Lord. Thank you God for the assurance that only you can give!

Jesus is my bench mark. He established His position in Gethsemane. He came to die but all flesh is appointed to death. But in Gethsemane, Jesus submitted to death, He chose to die as the Son of man to prove that He is the Son of God. The fleshly man would die but the Spirit man would live on. That is what happens when we meet Jesus at the cross. We submit to death. We choose death to the fleshly man so that the Spirit man can live on. But, we must go through our Gethsemane to get there. We must come to the end of ourselves and allow Christ to take charge of our lives. We are literally consenting to the death of the flesh that we can experience life in the Spirit through Christ. Gal. 2:20, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”