Day 22- Created to Become Like Christ
We are spiritual beings.
We are intellectual.
We can give and receive real love.
We can discern right from wrong.
Take on an entirely new way of life- a God fashioned life, a life renewed from the inside and working itself into your conduct as God accurately reproduces his character in you.
God's ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. There is a scripture that says.. take joy my dear brothers for the testing of your faith developes perservence. or something like that. It is REALLY hard to take joy when you are going through something hard. Take joy when you are miserable because when you get through it, you'll be closer to God. hard. but awesome.
FIRST we must choose to let go of old ways of acting.
SECOND we must change the way we think.
THIRD we must put on the character of Christ by developing new, godly habits.
page 177 said we are human beings, not human doings.
ReplyDeleteGod is more concerned about who you are than what you are doing.
so God wants to see your great character when you do something, not just see you do something because you have to do it. right? sort of like, he wants to see you worship and enjoy him in your everyday life tasks instead of just doing them out of thoughtlessness.