Understanding Your Position

There is a lot of disorderliness in this age, and there are lot of things taking people’s time and attention, and most importantly, there are situations that people have allowed to define them, instead of allowing themselves, to be called what God has called them. Many are living in our world today, who have no understanding of where God has placed them, which will make me bring our attention to some verses of the scripture where God asked certain people questions like, “Where are you?” and “what are you doing here?” Genesis 3:9(NIV); But the Lord God called to the man, “where are you?” 1Kings 19:13(NIV); When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave; Then a voice said to him, “ what are you doing here, Elijah?” These two important questions were questions that God asked both Adam and Elijah himself, which is an indication that God had placed them somewhere, but God could not find them at their post or garrison. Often times, God has found many of us guilty of defaulting in our position, and God is asking many of us these same questions today. The above questions implies that he had placed them at a certain position and he doesn’t expect them to be found wanton or found operating below the accepted standards that is required of such position. For Adam, God had placed him in a position of authority and dominion, in fact as far as God is concerned Adam is god on the earth, as such he could legislate on behalf of God, and nothing or no creature was to question his authority. But when God came to visit them, it is going to be very easy for us to assume that God was looking for them in the garden, but the question implies much more than that, because such assumptions would be an insult on God’s omnipresence. God was simply telling Adam, you are no longer in the exalted position where I have placed you, I am seeing a fallen man. I hope it has occurred to majority of us especially we Christians and the body of Christ in general that we are gradually losing our authority and we have left our rightful place, we are not acting effectively as the salt of the earth. Think about these, we have left governance in the hands of corrupt men, musicians and celebrities are the ones giving us a parameter to define what success is. The so called role models today are people whose lives are haphazard and bizarre. Hence it is important that we understand certain things about our God given positions. Let’s consider the meaning of the word position; Genesis 40:13(KJV); yet within three days shall Pharoah lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy PLACE…; (NIV) within three days Pharoah will lift up your head and restore you to your POSITION…; The KJV bible made no express mention of the word position, but the word place as used in Genesis 40:13 can be used as a substitute. This very word is translated as kane in the Hebrew translation and it means base, pedestal, estate and office. Our position is our God given office, and the bible interestingly uses the phrase In Christin many passages of the scripture. Adam lost the kingly and priestly position that God gave him, but Jesus Christ came to restore us to that position. Now the bible call us a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, a different breed of individuals called forth to show the praise of him that has called us. We have to understand the terminology in Christ in him we have an eternally secure position, because God hath highly exalted him above all powers, kingdoms, thrones, entities, bodies both terrestrial and celestial. Christ Christ means the anointed one, but in a deeper sense, it means the very likeness of God and his possibilities resident in an entity Christ means the fellowship of the Godhead in a man.