New Creation - Final Part 3

There are just a few more negative traits, which God is changing to make me a new creation. I dislike the limelight, but God is not concerned with this. I lack the confidence, anointing and ability to function in leadership, but I make a good foot soldier, because I follow instructions.

The last two strongholds, moodiness and grouchiness, only bother me now when I am tired, but God’s Spirit helps me to overcome even then by reminding me to keep my focus on Him rather than on myself. 

Over the years, God retained a few of my positive personality characteristics; such as my organizational abilities, calendar planning, economical tendencies, neat homemaking, attention to detail and a determination to finish what I start.

Another character trait, which He preserved, was my ability to find creative solutions to solve problems. Unfortunately, I always felt the need for others to do things my way, so God did purged me of that side of the coin.

God also had to break me of the penchant to ease the burdens of everyone around me; because I ended up burned out, and I thwarted God's plan in the lives of those I enabled.

I am sure that you can see from my testimony over the last three posts that God cares about every area of our life. He wants to transform and conform us to be like Christ and to manifest His love and divine nature to the world around us. People will see the difference He makes in our life and will want His transforming power for their life too.

Prayer:

Father God, thank You for making me into a new creation and for enabling me to overcome human tendencies by filling me with the divine nature of Christ and guiding me with Your Spirit (2 Peter 1:4; 2 Corinthians 5:17). Thank You for forgiving my inadequacies when I fall short of Your image of who I am in Christ, who is my true identity (Colossians 2:9-10). I rejoice in the fact that my life is now hidden in You with Christ, who is my whole life (Colossians 3:3-4). 

Thought for the Day:

Allow God to work in your life to exchange your negative personality traits with His fruit, to use your positive characteristics for His glory and to make you a new creation in Him. - 2 Corinthians 5:17

Pictures of God

 

God is so indescribable that Biblical writers used the best words they could find to depict Him in human terms. He is: a soldier (Exodus 15:3), a husband (Jeremiah 31:32), a true friend (Jeremiah 30:17), a savior (Isaiah 45:15), a caring shepherd (Psalm 23:1), a deliverer (Psalm 18:2), our good master (Psalm 123:2), our king (Psalm 10:16), a nurturing father (Psalm 89:26), a righteous judge (James 4:12) and so much more.

God is high and lifted up. He is larger than life and the train of His robe is all that will fit in His temple. His voice sounds like a thunderous waterfall or a loud trumpet; and it sends tremors throughout the earth (Revelation 14:2; Isaiah 6:1-4). God is exalted over every nation at the same time that He sits on His glorious throne in heaven. There is no God like Jehovah; yet, He is concerned with the affairs of our life on this earth (Psalm 113:4-6).

He puts a hunger in our soul for fellowship with Him, so that we will seek Him, reach out for Him and find Him. He is not far from any one of us. Once we surrender our will to His, we live, move and have our existence in Him as His children (Acts 17:27-28). God even provides for the creatures in nature. They store up His provision, which they receive from His open hand, and it satisfies them. By His Spirit He renews the earth and everything in it (Psalm 104:27-30).

No one can escape God’s presence. His influence reaches from heaven to hell, and from the seas to the mountains. He guides us no matter where we are dwelling. He turns our darkness into light (Psalm 139:7-12; Amos 9:2-4). Our God has always existed and He is coming back to the earth in order to rule and reign over mankind. There will be no more dying, sorrow, stress or depression under His leadership, as there is under the human leadership we suffer with now (Isaiah 35:10, 51:11).

Prayer:

Father God, You have always existed, and You are coming to rule in eternity. Even when our mortal body passes away, we will see You in our immortal body. Our heart yearns for that moment, in which we will see You face-to-face. We hope that it comes very soon (Job 19:25-27). Even now in our sin cursed world, You cause us to lie down in peace and You give us safety (Psalm 4:8). When we face trials and trouble, You are our stronghold and our refuge. Those who live in Your name and trust in Your faithfulness will never be forsaken (Deuteronomy 31:6-8).

Thought for the Day:

God keeps His eyes on us - not to harm us, but for our good. - Amos 9:4