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Like Yourself?
Some personal questions:
Do you like who you have become?
When you were 18 – would you have admired the person you are today?
Yes – I’m talking about the ‘physical’ you! (Have you become overweight? Out of shape? Sloppy?). But this exercise in self-examination also includes who you have become mentally, relationally, morally.
Would the ‘18-year old you’ – respect the ‘today you’?
A tougher question: What does God think of you?
What we start with is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to Him.
Are there changes to be made before you stand before Him for final judgment?
Personally, I’ve come a long way – but – I have a loooong way to go – and the daily devotional I use (My Utmost for His Highest – by Oswald Chambers) helps motivate and direct me.
Please consider the following:
“Remember what you are saved for – that the Son of God might be manifested in your mortal flesh. Bend the whole energy of your powers to realize your election as a child of God; rise to the occasion every time.
You cannot do anything for your salvation, but you must do something to manifest it, you must work out what God has worked in. Are you working it out with your tongue, and your brain and your nerves? If you are still the same miserable crosspatch, set on your own way, then it is a lie to say that God has saved and sanctified you.
God is the Master Engineer, He allows the difficulties to come in order to see if you can vault over them properly – “By my God have I leaped over a wall.” God will never shield you from any of the requirements of a son or daughter of His. Peter says – “Think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you.” Rise to the occasion; do the thing. It does not matter how it hurts as long as it gives God the chance to manifest Himself in your mortal flesh.
May God not find the whine in us any more, but may He find us full of spiritual pluck and athleticism, ready to face anything He brings. We have to exercise ourselves so that the Son of God may be manifested in our mortal flesh. God never has museums. The only aim of life is that the Son of God may be manifested, and all dictation to God vanishes. Our Lord never dictated to His Father, and we are not here to dictate to God; we are here to submit to His will so that He may work through us what He wants. When we realize this, He will make us broken bread and poured-out wine to feed and nourish others.”
“That ye may know what is the hope of His calling….” Eph. 1:18
CBMC Heartland, 05/22/03
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