The Bullet of Assurance: Lion Power
See if you remember this: back in the sixties one of American’s larges oil companies captured the imagination of the country with the slogan, “Put a Tiger in Your Tank.” Even if you don’t a tiger in your tank is a powerful image.
The idea was that using their gasoline would unleash the strength of a tiger in your engine! Of course, gas is gas, but some of us could just “feel” that tiger in there and we bought it by the gallons.
Amazingly enough the Bible has exactly the same idea around 930 B.C. when King Solomon wrote in Proverbs 28:1 … “The righteous are as bold as a lion.” Or, to put it another way, those who live by God’s standards have lion power!
Boldness and zest for life come from being confident and assured about one’s source. To be right is to be strong! So it has always been. So it will ever be.
The Bible gives one of Jesus’ names as “The Lion of Judah.” No mistake I’m sure for the greatest person who ever walked the earth! Strength has authority!
Those of us who have received Christ as Savior … not just had a mental belief in His existence … have been given the gift of the Holy Spirit. God puts His power in those who believe and obey (John 1:12 Acts 1:8 and 5:32). He does what no gasoline pump could ever do.
Therefore, the true Christian’s main task is learning how to progressively “let the Lion out” which he or she has inside. A joyful burden, to say the least!
In my own pilgrimage of following the Master I am gradually learning that His strength in me is greater than any force or problem against me (I John 4:4).
Sure, even the strongest of us falter and fail, despair and limp. But even the limping Lion has nothing to fear from the barking Chihuahuas!
Believe me, even life’s most difficult agonies are only Chihuahuas in comparison to God’s Lion in us … no matter how loud the bark!
Have you let God put “His Lion” in your life?
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