Whatever is going on in your life, God has his eye on your transformation. This is good news, by the way. All of the other things we long for in life-love and friendship-, freedom and wholeness, clarity of purpose, all the joy we long for-it all depends on our restoration. You can’t find or keep good friends while you are still an irritating person to be around. And there is no way love can flourish while you are still controlling. You can’t find your real purpose in life while you’re still slavishly serving other people’s expectations of you. You can’t find peace while you’re ruled by fear. You can’t enjoy what you have while you’re envying what the other guy has. On and on it goes. God wants us to be happy. Really. “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” (John 10:10) But he knows that in order for us to be truly happy, we have to be whole. Another word for that is holy. We have to be restored. Think of it this way-think of how you feel when you really screw things up. The look on your son’s face as you yell at him. The distance that has grown between you even though you apologized, for the hundredth time. How it tears you up inside to indulge in romantic fantasies about someone else’s spouse. You want that, but you don’t want that, but you wish you could, but you really don’t, and why is this going on inside? The guilt you feel when you lie straight-faced to a friend. And they find out. The hours you’ve wasted harboring resentment. The embarrassment of your addictions. You know what plagues you. Now what would it be like to never, ever do it again? Not even to struggle with it. What would your life be like if you were free of all that haunts you? Oh, the joy, the utter relief it would be to be transformed. That in itself would be more happiness than most of us ever experience. And-as if that were not enough- it would free us to live the life God has for us to live. #WalkingWithGod
Posted on: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 16:11:47 +0000
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