Part 5: Do You Know Who You Are?
We hope your journey through Parts 1 to 4 has been enlightening and spiritually prosperous. If you weren’t yet born again before taking the steps, we trust they’ve led you to be baptized in water and with the Holy Spirit, leaving you eager to grow in your personal relationship with God.
You now have a holy power living within you which no man can take away or destroy, and indeed it is a power (“But ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you…” Acts 1:8). But, the benefits of any power can only be realized when that power is accessed. An oven is useless, for example, if you don’t plug it into the electrical socket and then proceed to turn up the dial (or – if you want to get technical – key in the temperature and press “Start”).
Think of it this way: Before you were born again of water and of the Spirit (John 3:5), you were an oven that wasn’t yet plugged into the electrical supply. When you were water baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit, you were connected – through Jesus Christ the Messiah – to God. Now, it’s up to you to turn up the dial to cause the power of the Holy Spirit to come alive in your life. When you do that, all kinds of nourishing food will be produced for you – and others – to feast on. In fact, every person on this Earth is an oven so to speak, created by God; many just don’t know what they’re capable of should they sincerely turn to Jesus for help!
Some people might find the above analogy a little corny, but analogies can be very helpful for those struggling to fathom the enormity of what they’ve been called into by the Creator of the heavens and the Earth. Besides, Jesus used these kinds of comparisons a lot – in the form of parables. Jesus wanted His disciples to understand the fullness of their heavenly calling, and He wants you to do the same. This understanding starts with knowing who you are as one of God’s anointed.