Anointed

DEVOTION

2 CORINTHIANS

ANOINTED

2 Cor 1:21-22

21 Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, 22 set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.

NIV

It is an awesome thing to have been anointed by God with his Holy Spirit. If we were to picture a great throne room, covered with Gold, silver and other precious metals, with crystal chandeliers hanging from a crystal ceiling giving a heavenly illumination. There is even a golden floor with jewels such as diamonds, rubies, emeralds and sapphires embedded in it. A large stairway at the end of this great hall is leading up to the throne of pure gold surrounded with angels and upon the throne God almighty sits in all his glory and splendor. He calls out our name and summons us to come up the stairs to kneel at his feet so that he might anoint us with his Spirit. He declares that we are one of his.  He declares that because we now belong to him his divine power is available to us. He declares that because we now belong to him, no one may ever bring harm upon us without incurring his wrath. As he anoints us he places his Spirit in our hearts and declares it to be his guarantee of what will now happen in our lives. He guarantees us that when we are finished with the body he gave us to live in this earth and place it to rest that he will resurrect it in a glorified state and that we will ascend into the place that Jesus has been preparing for us. God instructs us that this is his deposit on a future reward he has for us because we are his, he owns us. All of this would certainly imply that we do not own ourselves, that we are not our own, that we cannot simply “Do our own thing”. Why would anyone want to give back his guarantee? Why would anyone want to exchange his deposit on us, his divine anointing for self-satisfaction? Why would anyone ever give that up? We have something wonderful, actually beyond what our words can describe, which is going to happen. Our future is so incredible because we responded to his call and we knelt at his feet and received his anointing, accepting his seal, the Holy Spirit, upon our hearts. The glory of what is to come awaits us. We have been anointed.