And One Day

"From Him, came Christ."

THE ANOINTING created the earth. With it, Elohim divided sky from land, seas from mountains. It was the anointing which hovered over the formless void. The anointing which moved when God spoke, "Light be!" The anointing brought light. It breathed into adam, making him a living soul.

The anointing caused a 100-year-old man and a 90-year-old woman to conceive and have a son.

The anointing freed their family, grown into hundreds of thousands, by turning an entire river system into blood. It became a pillar of fire by night and cloud by day to protect and guide them. The anointing parted the sea to allow them to walk on dry land. Not moist, not damp and muddy, but dry. The anointing repeated this phenomenon at the river Jordan, pushing it back six miles. The anointing caused the walls of Jericho to fall when they shouted their praises.

And still the power of God, the Presence and goodness of Jehovah, continued to work.

The anointing brought fire down from heaven to consume the sodden sacrifice. The anointing fed the prophet by sending ravens to him with bread. The anointing filled a woman’s jars with precious oil, to feed her family. The anointing caused a woman’s flour to never run out. The anointing raised a dead man back to life when he was tossed on top of the prophet's bones.

This glory of the Almighty God sat atop the mercy seat, a tiny gold box, to prevent man from returning into the garden. Flanked by two angels with outstretched wings, it depicted Genesis and man’s fall, while looking toward the Messiah, Jesus Christ, who would redeem him. The anointing filled the temple so that the priests could not stand upright to minster, then He made man the temple, with the True statement that “nothing is impossible with God (Luke 1:37).”

Nothing.

From a shepherd came a king. From a king came a son known for wealth and wisdom. From the son came heirs, which though divided for a time, would, after Babylon, come back together again.

From a virgin came an infant, the precious Son of God. The Holy Spirit, who is the anointing of Him, conceived Him in her. From Him, came Christ. From Him came miracles. From Him, were bread and fishes multiplied to feed thousands. He filled the net of Peter and friends until they overflowed, not once but twice. He suspended the Christ atop the water’s surface amidst a terrible storm. He did that twice, too. He calmed the sea and moved their boat instantly to dry land.

The anointing healed the blind, the deaf, lepers made outcasts. He caused the lame to walk again, unclean spirits to dissolve into the sea. The anointing upon the Anointed One healed all those oppressed by the devil.

The Spirit of him who raised Christ from the dead, raised a young girl back to life. He resurrected a man dead four days and a widow’s son atop the death bier during the funeral. He transformed the face of the Son of God into the glory of heaven, atop the mountain where He appeared with the prophet Moses and Elias. Men dead long ago lived still. Eternal. Men living amongst the dead stared Him in the eye and plotted murder.

But the anointing cannot be extinguished. Its Light will never go out. And though darkness swirls around behind it, the power that is God’s Spirit took the mangled body of our Lord, beaten beyond recognition, and raised it back to life again. The anointing did that.

Here is the truth. In the Upper Room sat 120 men and women. The disciples, the Savior’s mother and his brother, James. They lingered there in worship, and one day, the anointing fell.

“Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. (2) And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; (3) Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms. (4) And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us. (5) And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them. (6) Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. (7) And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. (8) And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.” (Acts 3:1-8)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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