While contemplating what to write about for this post, I was thinking about a teaching I heard a long time ago from a gifted brother in the Lord. His teaching taught how important it is to have “resolve“. Down through the years, as I’ve learned more about the Kingdom, resolve, or my lack of it, has taken on more and more importance toward my growth as a child of God. The scripture he used in his teaching really struck me. Jesus just got through teaching about the Kingdom when some Pharisees tried to warn Jesus that He was in danger of being murdered. Here is Jesus’ reply:
31At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, “Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.” 32And he said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I finish my course. 33Nevertheless, I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.’ 34O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! 35Behold, your house is forsaken. And I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’” Luke 13: 31-35
It was thrilling to see Jesus, under the threat of being killed, put Herod and the Pharisees in their place by telling them exactly what He was going to do, when He was going to do it, and for how long. Jesus demonstrated the kind of resolve and faith that all of His children should have while doing God’s will.
WHERE’S MY RESOLVE?
At the end of the day, isn’t it our resolve, when it comes to advancing the Kingdom, one of the things the enemy attacks the most? How many times have you decided to read the bible or pray and then suddenly you get a phone call, or your eyelids start to feel like weights are hanging from them while a sudden bout of the “yawns” come over you. How many times have you had good intentions and ideas to bless God and His people, but because you didn’t add resolve, they float away into the nether.
DEFINE RESOLVE
re·solve
verb
1.
settle or find a solution to (a problem, dispute, or contentious matter).
“the firm aims to resolve problems within 30 days”
synonyms: settle, sort out, solve, find a solution to, fix, straighten out, deal with, put right, put to rights, rectify; More
2.
decide firmly on a course of action.
“she resolved to call Dana as soon as she got home”
synonyms: determine, decide, make up one’s mind, make a decision
“Bob resolved not to wait any longer”
noun
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firm determination to do something.
“she received information that strengthened her resolve”
synonyms: decision, resolution, commitment
“he made a resolve not to go there again”
I also found some interesting words while looking up more synonyms for resolve. They were:
boldness
courage
firmness
intention
steadfastness
will
Did not our Lord demonstrate all these resolve synonyms in the face of the adversary?
Oh Lord, give us a greater measure of resolve! Let us face the obstacles in our way as you did, with boldness, courage, and steadfastness. When the enemy or our flesh tries to stop us, let us address it as you did in power and faith!
That same boldness and faith that Christ consistently demonstrated dwells within us by His Spirit. We have the resolve of Christ! Be strengthened in your resolve in the little and big things, for God is with you!
James 1:2-4 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
James 1:5-7 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. 6But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. 7For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.