"And I insist - and God backs me up on this - that there be no going along with the crowd, the empty-headed, mindless crowd. They've refused for so long to deal with God that they've lost touch not only with God but with reality itself. They can't think straight anymore. Feeling no pain, they let themselves go in sexual obsession, addicted to every sort of perversion.
But that's no life for you. You learned Christ! My assumption is that you have paid careful attention to him, been well instructed in the truth precisely as we have it in Jesus. Since, then, we do not have the excuse of ignorance, everything - and I do mean everything - connected with that old way of life has to go. It's rotten through and through. Gid rid of it! And then take on an entirely new way fo life - a God-fashioned life, a life renewed from teh inside and working itself into your conduct as God accurately reproduces his character in you." (Ephesians 4:20-24, The Message)
While there is something God is doing in us, we have the choice to let it happen, or refuse to be changed. It won't happen in spite of us, but only with our help. We have to do the hard stuff too, like setting our personal wants and desires aside for the sake of Christ's in our lives, whatever that means.
God is wanting to do something in us and is waiting for our approval. That's right, our approval.
So we need to let God work, and do what's necessary to show it in our lives.
Peace ><>
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2 comments:
Yes, getting rid of the old life is one of the best things I have ever done. When I look back at some of the things I did I can't believe I did those things. I'm not saying that I still don't have a few things to get rid of, but I know that God is still working on me and that his love is unconditional.
I thought you are suppose to be on vacation. Vacations means rest the brain, rest, relax do something you have been wanting to do, but didn't have the time. Now is the time.
When we say yes and let God do something within us, it starts a Journey. Limited by our humaness, we may think that the great thing that God is doing is the "End Goal",really it is the start of a Great Journey, as we grow through our changes and grow closer to God, greater ways for us to grow are revealed to us.
It is a lifelong Journey, our faithwalk with Jesus Christ. The Old Way has to Go!
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