As most of you know, I love to golf.
I have often imagined what it would be like to have Ben Hogan or Jack Nicholas, or Freddie Couples step into my body for that perfect shot down the fairway. Or that perfect wedge shot, or Gary Player with his perfect putting stroke.
Imagination can be a great thing. Someone once said, “if the mind can’t conceive it, the body can’t achieve it”.
Now imagine what your life would be like if Jesus stepped into your body and mind, flowing His perfect love and compassion into you, from His Spirit to yours.
Do you think it would make a difference in the way you treated people?
Of course it would!
Would it affect the way you respond to situations, the way you plan your day?
Yes, I truly believe it would!
As believers,we don’t have to imagine that possibility.
Jesus made that offer to anyone who was willing to trust Him and believe Him.
Before He went to the cross, He promised to send His Holy Spirit to give direction and to empower us toward faith.
John 16:13-14 says, “But when he, the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on His own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you.”
You see, Jesus promised to impart a small piece of himself, a measure of his majesty and strength, into the hearts and lives of all who put their faith in Him.
Through his Spirit, we have access to the full measure of his wisdom and strength.
The apostle Paul wrote that through Jesus we are “able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us” (Ephesians 3:20).
Jesus offers us salvation, but even more than that, he offers an empowering and personal relationship.
When we give ourselves over to him, and trust him as our Lord and Savior, he comes to live in us—and imparts his perfect strength and will into our lives.