"He Is Aleady Stronger" -2

"Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up Thine hand: forget not the humble." (Psalms 10:12) Do we think that God will force His hand upon us to make us obey Him? Much like that horse which is led to water, cannot be made to drink, we are given a free will by God, that we might choose righteousness. It is a choice that is based upon a matter of the heart; which really comes down to a desire that is within us to be conformed into His image. If the horse that is led to water wants to drink, then he will drink, and he will do so naturally and without having to be forced to drink. If those that want to seek after righteousness are placed in a righteous place, then they will find righteousness, and they will do so naturally. This is what Jesus has done for us! For we are placed in His righteousness, and have nowhere else to find righteousness but in Him; and that righteousness comes naturally; so much so, that not doing that which is right seems unnatural to those who are in Christ! I believe we can see this example given to us in John 6, which is expressed as 'The Bread of Life'; and there were many who quit following Jesus because they could not grasp what He was saying, and that it was He who could satisfy their hunger, forevermore! You might know the story, and how Jesus fed over 5,000 people with five barley loaves and two small fishes; and after all those people had been filled, there were twelve baskets full of the fragments which remained of the loaves which were divided. Then Jesus departed from them, for He perceived that they wanted to make Him king because of the miracle that the witnessed, and because He could give them food. After finding Jesus again, those people that were filled asked Him for the secret of being filled in such a manor; but Jesus instructed them to believe on Him, and that they would never hunger again. To which they asked for a sign that they might believe, as was the sign of the manna which was given in the wilderness; in other words, something which they could go out and gather for themselves and be filled. To which Jesus answered, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but My Father giveth you the True Bread from heaven. For the Bread of God is He which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world." To which they answered back, "Lord, evermore give us this bread"; or in modern lango, "Show me the money!" This is how we sometimes expect God to work in our lives, and how we expect Him to manifest in us His righteousness, as if it were something that we would go out each morning and gather up, as they gathered manna in the wilderness. But that is not how it works! For we are not given righteousness based upon our own abilities to gather it, but by Him who gives it to us, and by His righteousness alone! Therefore, when David concludes this verse with "forget not the humble", it is speaking of those that know that they are unable to achieve righteousness on their own; for the humble are those who want to be led and to drink naturally; and in Jesus we do never thirst! "And Jesus said unto them, I am the Bread of Life: he that cometh to Me shall never hunger; and he that believeth in Me shall never thirst." (John 6:35)