- Overcomer Literature Trust
- Swindon
- Wiltshire
THE POWER OF CHRISTIANITY.
By Kanzo Uchimura
“Christ lives in me”. He stands not by my side, or lives not along with me, or stays not as my heart’s guest, but He is the centre of my being. This means He becomes my will and my person making it impossible to distinguish Him from me, or me from Him. The relationship between Him and me, at this moment, far excels the close relationship between husband and wife. When two hearts are combined and abide together, the relationship is called friendship. But the unity between Christ and a Christian goes beyond the friendship of two hearts. It is the oneness of two persons so that the two cannot be separated eternally. “I live, yet not I but Christ lives in me” (Galatians 2 v20).
“For the Kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power” (1 Corinthians 4 v20). God is not theory but power. Life is not logic but practice. Religion of salvation must be a great power. Literature cannot save a human. Philosophy cannot transform the world. If Christianity is God’s truth, it should not be merely to please humans like literature and philosophy. The word of God “converts the soul” (Psalm 19 v7). “For the Word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart” (Hebrews 4 v 12). “It is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile” (Romans 1 v16). Christianity did not come “with excellency of speech or of wisdom” (1 Corinthians 2 v1).
As long as God abides, the truth of the Bible shall not lose its vitality. Believing in God, we shall embrace the truth of Christianity and be partakers of its salvation.
From ‘Daily Devotions with Uchimura Kanzo’.