I’ve never been comfortable around Christians who weren’t dying to self. Too much flesh and not enough Jesus makes me uncomfortable.
If God sees even a glimmer of a chance that someone wants Him, wants the new Life He can give anyone, He will move mountains in that person to make sure they take on His Life.
There is grace on/in God’s Word. God’s Word is all powerful and so is His grace. So if I’m not doing His Word, will I have His all-powerful grace operating in my life?
What keeps me from doing His Word? Why would I not want all of God’s grace operating in my life?
I’m finding that the more I line up with God’s Word – the more I “do” it, and not just hear it – the more of His wonderful grace, favor, covering, peace, rest, security and joy is operating in me. I can sense and feel it doing so. The old “Mark” is dying and giving way to God’s ways. It’s the most incredible Life I’ve known.
And it makes sense. The more I become like Jesus, the more of His Life I’ll have working in my life. It’s a miraculous exchange – I die to self, to Mark, and I get more of Him, more of Jesus. As a result, I get more free indeed. I love His freedom. What a blessing it is to put off the old man (the old Mark) and to put on Christ. Wow. Amazing.
And God knows the more I die to self, the more I want of Him and since He’s infinite, He keeps giving me more of Him. I like more of Him. ☺
Oh, Hallelujah!
I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Galatians 2:20
that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.
Ephesians 4:22-24
Thanking and praising God in all things,
Mark