Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Make This Your New Year's Resolution

My Utmost For His Highest
 
….unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. —Matthew 18:3
 
{CHAMBERS} “The response of the natural to the spiritual should be continuous conversion, but this is where we so often refuse to be obedient. […] But we must “put on the new man…” (Ephesians 4:24). […] Our natural life must not rule— God must rule in us. To refuse to be continuously converted puts a stumbling block in the growth of our spiritual life. There are areas of self-will in our lives where our pride pours contempt on the throne of God and says, “I won’t submit.” We deify our independence and self-will and call them by the wrong name. What God sees as stubborn weakness, we call strength. There are whole areas of our lives that have not yet been brought into submission, and this can only be done by this continuous conversion. Slowly but surely we can claim the whole territory for the Spirit of God.”
 
{ELGIN} Do you struggle with your old nature? Or are you satisfied with  how far you have traveled on you spiritual journey and decided that the last stop over was good enough.  The things you do that don’t honor God are really not all that bad.  There are “tons” of other Christians who think so too.  The thing is, it really doesn’t matter what we think, does it? God has called us out to be like His Son.  All of us fall way short of that mark.  God would not have made it the goal if He had not made the goal possible to achieve.  Certainly we will not realize the goal until we are with Him, but in the meantime, we are to strive toward the goal (Philippians 3:14), live a life that glorifies God and not man (1 Corinthians 6:19-20), and let our light shine wherever we go. (Matthew 5:16)  Looking for a New Year’s resolution.  How is that for one?

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