Our attachment and total reliance on God are not signs of weakness or emotionalism. They are declarations of strength, faith in the unseen, and the courage of our convictions. This world is not reality, it is temporary at best. The everlasting Kingdom of God is what life both now and for eternity is really all about.
This realm on earth is our testing ground, our purifying fire, our object lessons for the future. The human part of Jesus learned obedience from what he suffered during His 33 years on this earth (Isaiah 53:3), and we do too. He is our whole life (Colossians 3:3-4), and our reason for living.
God’s Spirit transforms our carnal nature into the character and nature of Jesus. The past is forgotten, the future is not promised, and our current shortcomings and failings are of little importance – although we always reap what we sow. Otherwise, there is no striving in our walk with the Trinity of God (Colossians 2:6).
We walk by faith in His faithfulness to finish what He started in us (Hebrews 12:2). We stop striving and we rest from the stress of this world. We do not receive Satan’s condemnation or our inner voice of guilt and judgment (Romans 8:1). God loves us unconditionally, even when we were still lost in sin (Romans 5:8).
God’s Spirit will actually transform our carnal nature into the character and nature of Jesus. He also fills us with the fruit of His Spirit – exchanging our fleshly responses with His love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, meekness, self-control and faith (Galatians 5:22-23).
There is no one with an excuse to reject God’s free offer of salvation. He places in us a conscience that signals us when we slip into unrighteousness; He makes His truth evident within the soul of every person from birth; and He also gives us an awareness of His invisible attributes, eternal power and divine nature throughout all of creation (Romans 1:18-20).
Prayer:
Father God, Your Spirit renews our mind, and we adopt Your thoughts and ways as our own (Ephesians 4:23; Romans 12:2). Keep us from cauterizing our understanding of Your purposes and plans by polluting Your truth with satanic lies (1 Timothy 4:2). Help us to walk in Your righteousness.
Thank You for writing Your laws on our heart. You allow our conscience to bear witness to Your ways, and our thoughts to remind us to trust only in You (Romans 2:14-15). Thank You for providing all of Your Born Again children with Your Spirit that convicts us when we slip from the safety of Your narrow way onto the broad way that leads to destruction (Matthew 7:13-14).
Thought for the Day:
Moral standards and what we perceive as Biblical mandates are not the expected behavior that is acceptable to God; He simply asks us to prove our love to Him by keeping His commandments, and He goes one step further by writing them on our heart.
- John 14:15, 21; 2 John 1:6; Hebrews 10:16-26; Romans 2:15
