It’s been said, “Known routines, though painful, are at least known.” There’s never been a truer statement. We know our way doesn’t work, but at least we know what the outcome will be, however painful and disappointing. We’ve become comfortable and willing to put up with this known outcome.
This is where love comes into play as secure children of God. If we love Jesus, He is asking us to trust that He not only has a better life for us, but as God can deliver it as well. I’m not talking about the cliché Jesus, the Christian tradition Jesus or even the one you may have seen in your church experience. I’m talking about the Jesus of Scripture, the Jesus who died and rose from the grave to prove He could deliver on all His promises to all children of God.
This Jesus is asking you to trust Him by using your biblical tools to cut through all the voices telling you to stay in your unfulfilling predictable known lifestyle to venture out and listen to and follow Him to a life filled with love, significance and security. Jesus indeed has something better for you to experience – more of Him. Today is the day to venture out of the comfortable known to become more like Him using your biblical tools. Your new known will be much more fulfilling than your current one.
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“People don’t resist change, they resist being changed.”
If we’re honest, we like the benefits of change – earning more money, upgrading our electronic gizmos, downgrading the size of our clothes, etc. The part we don’t like is what it takes to get those results – effort to deal with our pasts and to process life in the present. Personal change is both uncomfortable and time consuming.
Yet, this is what being a follower of Jesus Christ is all about – change. Jesus isn’t adding Himself to us. He is replacing our character with His. He knows this type of eternal change will bring His followers everything they’re truly looking for in life – love, significance and security.
Yes, change is a process as it takes time to retrain your brain. The question is, “Will you trust Jesus that it’s in your best interests to surrender an area of your life to His life-changing process when He asks us for it?” It’s time to let Him change your life from the inside-out if you want the “abundant life” rather than the defeated life. It’s time, today, right now, to pick up and use your biblical tools.
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“How am I doing? I’m doing okay. No, I’m doing great, especially compared to those around me.” Comparison can be a deadly game when it comes to walking in freedom.
Jesus, not those around you, is the source of love, security and significance. Only by walking in His presence will we ever experience the kind of life He came to give to those who believe in Him. Though we can learn through watching the lives of others, we are never to measure ourselves by them. All sin, no matter how small it may be, takes us out of the presence of God where the good stuff is found.
Who or what will you face and focus on today: Jesus, people or your situation? The outcome of this choice will determine how you’re really doing today.
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Believers sometimes have mistaken ideas about grace. For some it’s used like a get of jail free card. They can do anything they want and God will and has to forgive them.
While it’s true God will forgive us, grace is not the liberty to do whatever we want with the expectation that we’ll be forgiven. Biblical grace is really the God-given opportunity to walk with and come into His presence again, where the good stuff in life is found. We don’t even deserve this opportunity, let alone the ability, as our actions deserve nothing of the kind.
This insight should do two things. One, it should cause our love for Him to increase and make us extremely grateful to Him for even allowing us back into His presence. We don’t deserve to ever experience His love and peace because of our actions. It’s because of His actions that we’re allowed to do so. Secondly, it should cause us to fail forward, not backward. Our actions cause us to fail. It’s because of His actions that we have the biblical tools of freedom to learn from, not repeat, our failures; thus using less and less of God’s grace.
Grace should be used to fail forward, not abused to stay on the sin-confession-sin cycle. “Thank you Jesus for Your grace to become more like You everyday everywhere.”
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“If you don’t like the answer, maybe you need to ask a different question.” The person making the statement was having a hard time figuring out the answer to a challenge she couldn’t solve. The old way of looking at her situation only brought her the same conclusions that led her down the same path that led to a dead end.
If we want to see different results, experience more joy and peace, and live a life of freedom we’ve got to think differently using information from an outside source. Jesus will attack your challenges from a different angle so you can experience different results; thus getting out of the sin-confession-sin cycle.
This only comes slowing down and listen to Him. Let Him help you ask different questions. Let Him help you attack your problem from a different angle. Then, will you trust Him that your life will get better tomorrow if you choose to walk with Him today?
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