Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – we are supernaturally saved to be supernaturally alive.
Mark 6:51-52 TPT
[51] Then he came closer and climbed into the boat with them, and immediately the stormy wind became still. They were completely and utterly overwhelmed with astonishment [52] because they failed to learn the lesson of the miracle of the loaves, and their hearts were unwilling to learn the lesson.
Observation
Why can I see miracles but not expect to live miraculously? What is it about the supernatural that although I witness it I am not prepared to live constantly in expectation of it? Why do I love the supernatural but retreat to a life in the known natural realm? The disciples had just returned from a successful ministry trip Jesus sent them on where they personally delivered the demonised and healed the sick, they had just been part of the miracle of feeding 5000 families with a handful of bread and fish, and yet here they are “completely and utterly overwhelmed with astonishment,” at Jesus walking on water and calming a storm.
What if living supernaturally became natural for us? What if my first response to situations was an expectation of the supernatural? Jesus tells me I am not a citizen of this world, that my citizenship is in the supernatural realm of heaven. He tells me that I inherit the Kingdom of God. He tells me I am a new creation. Yet I, like the disciples, revert to living in the constraints of the here, astonished and overwhelmed by the supernatural rather than expectant and anticipating.
Living supernaturally means I do not live in control. By definition, the supernatural is outside of natural understandable bankable outcomes. Do I live in the natural here because I understand the dynamics so I feel more secure, more in control? I wonder whether there will be a day when I live released from the natural where I will see what was possible to me now had I broken free from the constraints of the security of the natural?
Am I unteachable? Am I unwilling? Salvation is a miracle, my whole life story is shaped by supernatural personal experiences of you. Do I again, like the disciples, fail to learn the lessons of the miracles I have seen and experienced? Can I really live from the supernatural story of salvation and not expect and yearn for supernatural interventions in other aspects of my life? My identity, my life, my future, and my hopes, are all shaped in the supernatural, I am shaped supernaturally.
Application
Become expectant of supernatural. Become teachable. Reposture myself to be and live from the new creation me, and live from heaven to earth. Risk security and certainty for the awe and wonder of the supernatural, my new home.
Response
Thank you that you offer me a different life from the one of the natural now. The offer is not a demand but an invitation. Thank you that you understand what is possible and available to me but you love me when I live less and constrained by my fears. You never turn from me, you never take your love away, and there is no manipulation or transaction in your thinking to have me live the way you provide. This is a great life and offers greater greatness. Thank you for the invitation to live naturally supernaturally.
Meditation
Meditate – I am supernaturally shaped.
Consider:
How does the supernatural of salvation shape me in the interactions of today?
What stops me from expecting and anticipating the supernatural intervention of heaven on earth?
JOURNEY DEEPER