No, I cannot rest in my bed tonight until I add a final testimony. And please try to appreciate this, especially do I appeal to those of you who are fellow members of God's household of faith.
A few years ago, I began a military art blog featuring some of the work I had done portraying various military aircraft and other types of war arsenal. They represent various periods of military history.
What has grieved me much is that these postings had received comments, all being quite favorable. They were a sort of "keep up the good work," or, "These are really interesting!" And I painfully confess that at the time, I enjoyed reading them. But no additions have been made to this blog since, I think, around 2007. And to be honest, I have no desire to continue with it. In fact, I would prefer, if possible, to be rid it altogether. Why? Because since a powerful shaking I had received from the Lord a little over two years ago, the only thing I want to produce and show others, is what points others to eternity, and yes, God's Son Jesus Christ. The truth is, the previous blog shows nothing but themes of death. This present blog is about life and peace!
Now, you might be wondering, if you've read this far, how I could possibly be grieved over favorable comments on those images. It is because when I began sharing later, things which God has impressed on my heart and soul, there has not been even one comment made on these writings. The disturbing aspect is not that I have never seen a comment; rather it is what I fear to be an apparent lack of interest in things which truly matter: things having eternal significance!
I cannot help but think about Brother Paul's words found in Colossians 3:1&2: And these words are what God used to begin getting me to search my own heart back in 2008, and start recognizing what really matters.
"If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things
Which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand
of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things
on the earth."
I hope no one out there in blog land will think of me as a legalist in the sense that I advocate
living under the law written on tables of stone. God forbid! But God's law is written on the tables
of the hearts of all of us who gave their hearts and souls to the Lordship of Christ. Everything else down here is sure to burn up before His judgment seat one day if it does not glorify and worship Him now, and if it does not point lost men, women, and children to Him so they might be saved, now, before it is everlasting too late.
I have said enough here, I suppose. Only I am at a loss as to how things which really have no eternal value, are often praised, and things which have to do with heaven above, and eternity, seldom are, if they ever are.
It is my hope and prayer that God will do a great and mighty work in and through His people, especially on this side of the Atlantic, where we have been able to worship thus far without facing persecution. But I believe this might soon change, and we will soon have to go through the fire for our faith. The sobering truth is, that time is fast running out, and if we are going to be and do anything for the glory and praise of "Him who called us out of darkness into His marvelous light," we best begin now. God is waiting, now!!!
My final word tonight is that whoever reads these words, will not take them as indicative of one who is "holier than thou," or self-righteous. I want all of you to know that as I write these words, as well as those I had been posting since 2007, I do it out of a love for my Savior, and out of my love for you. And they are written, in deed, by the hand of a man who feels he has Brother Paul beat in only one regard, when he said he was the chief of sinners. If God can save a wretch like me, He can save anyone!
May His grace be with you always.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Cheap Grace?
"And it came to pass, that, as they went in the way, a certain man said unto Him, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. And Jesus said unto Him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man hath not where to lay His head. And He said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead, but go thou and preach the kingdom of God. And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee, but let me first bid them farewell, which are at home at my house. And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God."
Luke 9:57-62.
Is grace cheap? By that I suppose I mean should we view the grace of God as something of minimal value, the same as an item we may purchase at a store, say, like the Dollar Tree? I had some time to think that matter through, and the only conclusion I feel I could come to was that if the grace which God showed us was not cheap, how could I have the attitude by the way I live from day to day, that it was cheap? A perfect Man (Jesus), who went to a cross, to suffer beyond what human words could describe, in order that I might be made one of God's children, and have access to His heaven, does not sound like a cheap act of grace at all to me.
Yet, I am confessing here that there have been times when I thought about God's grace much the same way the persons mentioned in the above passage from Luke did. They really did not want Christ in the way He had hoped they would want Him. They wanted all His benefits, but they did not really want Him. They wanted all He promised if they would follow Him, but they did not want to pay the cost involved along the way.
I am not a Facebook person, and I make no apology for not being so. But a friend who uses it often, noticed that a certain person out there in Blog Land did write an inquiry into why I have not written anything lately on my Faith Walk. This person further added that the previous entries I had posted, blessed her and others who desire to grow from infancy to adulthood spiritually. I responded by saying that when I had begun this blog a couple of years ago, I did so in the belief that the Lord wanted me to, and that it might well be a blessing to others. However, since I had found no comments, I began to wonder if perhaps the idea was not from Him, but from me. It's not that I wanted to begin and continue this work so I would get responses. This would not be the right motive, as that would only prove I was more interested in man's approval, instead of my Lord's approval. And my Lord surely has much to say about that. If you care to read one example, I refer you to His teaching found in Matthew 6:1-6.
But just what is grace? The word in the Greek New Testament is "charis." It means favor and goodwill shown to someone undeserving of it. In this case, it is from God. I entitled this current posting as "Cheap Grace?" But just what is grace? Better still, what is God's grace? It is hard for me to say one without the other. God and His grace are like His love. He IS love! And it is the same as Jesus the Son being One with His Father. He said, "I and my Father are one."
And He IS grace! I trust God will forgive me for giving a simple definition. But what it means to me is a show of goodness and mercy to someone who does not deserve it. And that easily applies to me: I do not deserve His grace, and I never will.
One cold December afternoon during one of my long walks, this thought came to me: "If I received from a righteous, holy God what I truly deserve, I surely would not get from Him what I do not deserve." He gave me what I don't deserve, instead of what I do deserve. In other words, He gave to me His forgiveness, salvation, and the promise of heaven one day with Him, instead of letting me continue on in a life that really was not life at all, (1), lost, unforgiven, and on my way to hell, where I would be separated from Him forever and ever. And If you trusted Christ as your Lord and Savior, truly repented of your sins, the same applies to you as well.
That is grace, at least in the best possible way I can ever hope to define it. And that grace was not, and still is not, cheap! And if I cheapen it, then that grace has failed to achieve for me its intended work.
I will not write about him in this post, but in my next one, I would like to mention a man I feel both understood, and lived, by a grace that was not cheap. His name is Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and while he was in a Nazi prison, he wrote a book called The Cost of Discipleship. I want to share with you some of the excerpts from this prized gift my wife gave to me for Christmas two years ago.
(1)...Ref. Ephesians 2:1.
Luke 9:57-62.
Is grace cheap? By that I suppose I mean should we view the grace of God as something of minimal value, the same as an item we may purchase at a store, say, like the Dollar Tree? I had some time to think that matter through, and the only conclusion I feel I could come to was that if the grace which God showed us was not cheap, how could I have the attitude by the way I live from day to day, that it was cheap? A perfect Man (Jesus), who went to a cross, to suffer beyond what human words could describe, in order that I might be made one of God's children, and have access to His heaven, does not sound like a cheap act of grace at all to me.
Yet, I am confessing here that there have been times when I thought about God's grace much the same way the persons mentioned in the above passage from Luke did. They really did not want Christ in the way He had hoped they would want Him. They wanted all His benefits, but they did not really want Him. They wanted all He promised if they would follow Him, but they did not want to pay the cost involved along the way.
I am not a Facebook person, and I make no apology for not being so. But a friend who uses it often, noticed that a certain person out there in Blog Land did write an inquiry into why I have not written anything lately on my Faith Walk. This person further added that the previous entries I had posted, blessed her and others who desire to grow from infancy to adulthood spiritually. I responded by saying that when I had begun this blog a couple of years ago, I did so in the belief that the Lord wanted me to, and that it might well be a blessing to others. However, since I had found no comments, I began to wonder if perhaps the idea was not from Him, but from me. It's not that I wanted to begin and continue this work so I would get responses. This would not be the right motive, as that would only prove I was more interested in man's approval, instead of my Lord's approval. And my Lord surely has much to say about that. If you care to read one example, I refer you to His teaching found in Matthew 6:1-6.
But just what is grace? The word in the Greek New Testament is "charis." It means favor and goodwill shown to someone undeserving of it. In this case, it is from God. I entitled this current posting as "Cheap Grace?" But just what is grace? Better still, what is God's grace? It is hard for me to say one without the other. God and His grace are like His love. He IS love! And it is the same as Jesus the Son being One with His Father. He said, "I and my Father are one."
And He IS grace! I trust God will forgive me for giving a simple definition. But what it means to me is a show of goodness and mercy to someone who does not deserve it. And that easily applies to me: I do not deserve His grace, and I never will.
One cold December afternoon during one of my long walks, this thought came to me: "If I received from a righteous, holy God what I truly deserve, I surely would not get from Him what I do not deserve." He gave me what I don't deserve, instead of what I do deserve. In other words, He gave to me His forgiveness, salvation, and the promise of heaven one day with Him, instead of letting me continue on in a life that really was not life at all, (1), lost, unforgiven, and on my way to hell, where I would be separated from Him forever and ever. And If you trusted Christ as your Lord and Savior, truly repented of your sins, the same applies to you as well.
That is grace, at least in the best possible way I can ever hope to define it. And that grace was not, and still is not, cheap! And if I cheapen it, then that grace has failed to achieve for me its intended work.
I will not write about him in this post, but in my next one, I would like to mention a man I feel both understood, and lived, by a grace that was not cheap. His name is Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and while he was in a Nazi prison, he wrote a book called The Cost of Discipleship. I want to share with you some of the excerpts from this prized gift my wife gave to me for Christmas two years ago.
(1)...Ref. Ephesians 2:1.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Great and Mighty Things
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not. Jeremiah 33:3
The man God spoke these words to, at times tried to get away from his call to preach, but Jeremiah could not get away from that call. Every time he did try, the Lord would send a fire of conviction deep into his bones. It has rather been that way for me, times when I felt like saying to God, "It's your problem. You handle it. I'm out of here!" But that same fire soon returns, and after He allows me a short period to get over my own personal issues, He gets me up and going again.
After this past Sunday morning, just a little past 9:30, I was convinced more than ever before that He had given me a special ministry to special people. These "special" people are just that to me because they suffer from emotional illnesses. And where are they? They are locked behind the walls and closed doors of a psychiatric hospital located in a country setting in the county in which I live. Some people out in the world at large still refer to them as "lunies in a nuthouse." I have even heard "good" church folks describe them that way whenever I told them about my ministry to such persons.
But had any of these folks gone with me this past Sunday and seen as I did the look of hunger and thirst in their eyes, hunger and thirst for someone to care for them, someone to just love them, and to tell them that God loves them best of all, I feel sure they might want to let go of those faulty notions.
Contrary to the belief of many who do not understand this kind of illness, these are hurting people who have been hurt in more ways than many of us who are well can imagine. Depression is very much a real and very serious condition. I ought to know. I have suffered with it for many years, and I still have to deal with it from time to time. I am thankful for medicines which I believe the Lord gave to certain people the talent to develop. I have not had to take any medication for several years, but I am glad at least that it was there for me when I really needed it. But what I also believe is that there is the Balm in Gilead still around to heal sick minds. Although in certain cases diseases of the mind are caused by some organic dysfunction, I have also found that there are some of these which are caused by the environment. One woman, now in her late forties, told me a while back that she has suffered with mental distress since she was a little girl. She had been sexually abused by her father.
But just how do I see those who are emotionally disturbed? I see them as being people who need to know that their lives are not hopeless, because there is a wonderful God and Savior who can help them through their struggle. They, like all of us, need to hear and experience the same saving grace of God through His Son Jesus Christ. And in that light, I am thankful to my Father in heaven that He chose to use me, scattered and undone as I am, to minister to these hurting souls. What a blessing it is to have enough of what they have been going through so that I might be able to relate to them effectively with the gospel. I would not trade that for all the money this world could afford me today, or any day.
The man God spoke these words to, at times tried to get away from his call to preach, but Jeremiah could not get away from that call. Every time he did try, the Lord would send a fire of conviction deep into his bones. It has rather been that way for me, times when I felt like saying to God, "It's your problem. You handle it. I'm out of here!" But that same fire soon returns, and after He allows me a short period to get over my own personal issues, He gets me up and going again.
After this past Sunday morning, just a little past 9:30, I was convinced more than ever before that He had given me a special ministry to special people. These "special" people are just that to me because they suffer from emotional illnesses. And where are they? They are locked behind the walls and closed doors of a psychiatric hospital located in a country setting in the county in which I live. Some people out in the world at large still refer to them as "lunies in a nuthouse." I have even heard "good" church folks describe them that way whenever I told them about my ministry to such persons.
But had any of these folks gone with me this past Sunday and seen as I did the look of hunger and thirst in their eyes, hunger and thirst for someone to care for them, someone to just love them, and to tell them that God loves them best of all, I feel sure they might want to let go of those faulty notions.
Contrary to the belief of many who do not understand this kind of illness, these are hurting people who have been hurt in more ways than many of us who are well can imagine. Depression is very much a real and very serious condition. I ought to know. I have suffered with it for many years, and I still have to deal with it from time to time. I am thankful for medicines which I believe the Lord gave to certain people the talent to develop. I have not had to take any medication for several years, but I am glad at least that it was there for me when I really needed it. But what I also believe is that there is the Balm in Gilead still around to heal sick minds. Although in certain cases diseases of the mind are caused by some organic dysfunction, I have also found that there are some of these which are caused by the environment. One woman, now in her late forties, told me a while back that she has suffered with mental distress since she was a little girl. She had been sexually abused by her father.
But just how do I see those who are emotionally disturbed? I see them as being people who need to know that their lives are not hopeless, because there is a wonderful God and Savior who can help them through their struggle. They, like all of us, need to hear and experience the same saving grace of God through His Son Jesus Christ. And in that light, I am thankful to my Father in heaven that He chose to use me, scattered and undone as I am, to minister to these hurting souls. What a blessing it is to have enough of what they have been going through so that I might be able to relate to them effectively with the gospel. I would not trade that for all the money this world could afford me today, or any day.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Trust God, Not His Blessings
Earlier today as I continued my personal study of the Psalms, I felt deeply impressed to do a little backtracking. The Lord led me to return to the 103rd Psalm, and to look carefully at the first two verses. David both loved and trusted in his faithful God. He began this psalm by saying, "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits."
With all the personal issues which have come to my wife and me of late, these words really spoke to me in a most unique and wonderful way. What suddenly struck me was that David did not begin this psalm with "Bless the Lord for all His benefits." He began it by expressing devotion to his God: "Bless the Lord O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name!" It is my belief that David did not want to give his reader the impression that he loved his Lord solely because of all the blessings (benefits) he had received from Him. He doubtless knew that would be a shallow, surface kind of devotion rather than a deep, genuine love for his Lord.
What does this say to us, then? I believe it tells us that we should want to worship and love our God not for His blessings He so graciously sends to us, but because He is our God, and we are His people, forever, provided, of course our faith is in His blessed Son Jesus Christ. Putting it another way, we are to love Him, not the temporal benefits! These come and go, but God is our God forever, and He will never leave us, nor forsake us.
One final thought came to me in connection with this: that no matter what comes to me, and to any of God's children, it is always good. Even sickness can be a good thing, provided we know it is from an all-wise heavenly Father who causes all things to work together for our eternal good. It is good because it, along with all other things, can be used by God to bring us into a closer, more trusting relationship with Him and His blessed Son Jesus Christ. And I know of no other blessing or benefit as wonderful as that.
"If there be any virtue, if there be any praise, thing on these things." (Phil. 4:8).
With all the personal issues which have come to my wife and me of late, these words really spoke to me in a most unique and wonderful way. What suddenly struck me was that David did not begin this psalm with "Bless the Lord for all His benefits." He began it by expressing devotion to his God: "Bless the Lord O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name!" It is my belief that David did not want to give his reader the impression that he loved his Lord solely because of all the blessings (benefits) he had received from Him. He doubtless knew that would be a shallow, surface kind of devotion rather than a deep, genuine love for his Lord.
What does this say to us, then? I believe it tells us that we should want to worship and love our God not for His blessings He so graciously sends to us, but because He is our God, and we are His people, forever, provided, of course our faith is in His blessed Son Jesus Christ. Putting it another way, we are to love Him, not the temporal benefits! These come and go, but God is our God forever, and He will never leave us, nor forsake us.
One final thought came to me in connection with this: that no matter what comes to me, and to any of God's children, it is always good. Even sickness can be a good thing, provided we know it is from an all-wise heavenly Father who causes all things to work together for our eternal good. It is good because it, along with all other things, can be used by God to bring us into a closer, more trusting relationship with Him and His blessed Son Jesus Christ. And I know of no other blessing or benefit as wonderful as that.
"If there be any virtue, if there be any praise, thing on these things." (Phil. 4:8).
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Up Means Down
Jeremiah 1:10
"See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant."
Jeremiah's prophetic call was from God. God would never call a man to that great work who thought too much of himself. Jeremiah did not feel he measured up to such a high vocation. I suppose that is why he told the Lord in verse 6 that he could not speak, for he was only a child.
But God does not want the man He does call to the ministry to think too little of himself. That is why he answered Jeremiah with a solemn retort, "Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I send thee, and whatsoever I command thee, thou shalt speak." He further told his man for that work not to be afraid of those to whom he would send him.
Finally, after this matter of the call God gave Jeremiah was settled, He then told him that he would be given His authority to root out, pull down, destroy, throw down, then build and plant.
There is a powerful message here concerning men's greatest need, and that is to brought down so that in time he might be lifted up. God's Word teaches this: that until we are brought low, we cannot be lifted up. This is a matter of humility. There are those of us these days who profess faith in Christ, that they are going to heaven when they die, but there is a spiritual arrogance which keeps them back from being all that the Lord desires for them to be. That is why the Bible admonishes us in James 4:10, "Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He shall lift you up." In the preceding verse 6 we are warned, "God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble."
I can never rightly expect my life to truly count for God and His glory unless I am first willing to be brought down low, for it is only when I am down that can be raised up. And no person, no matter how good or fit he might think him or herself to be, will never see, nor enter heaven until he repents of his sins and surrenders his life to Jesus Christ. He said, "Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein."
Think on this.
"See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant."
Jeremiah's prophetic call was from God. God would never call a man to that great work who thought too much of himself. Jeremiah did not feel he measured up to such a high vocation. I suppose that is why he told the Lord in verse 6 that he could not speak, for he was only a child.
But God does not want the man He does call to the ministry to think too little of himself. That is why he answered Jeremiah with a solemn retort, "Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I send thee, and whatsoever I command thee, thou shalt speak." He further told his man for that work not to be afraid of those to whom he would send him.
Finally, after this matter of the call God gave Jeremiah was settled, He then told him that he would be given His authority to root out, pull down, destroy, throw down, then build and plant.
There is a powerful message here concerning men's greatest need, and that is to brought down so that in time he might be lifted up. God's Word teaches this: that until we are brought low, we cannot be lifted up. This is a matter of humility. There are those of us these days who profess faith in Christ, that they are going to heaven when they die, but there is a spiritual arrogance which keeps them back from being all that the Lord desires for them to be. That is why the Bible admonishes us in James 4:10, "Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He shall lift you up." In the preceding verse 6 we are warned, "God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble."
I can never rightly expect my life to truly count for God and His glory unless I am first willing to be brought down low, for it is only when I am down that can be raised up. And no person, no matter how good or fit he might think him or herself to be, will never see, nor enter heaven until he repents of his sins and surrenders his life to Jesus Christ. He said, "Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein."
Think on this.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
What Difference Does it Make?
"Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." 2 Corinthians 5:17
This verse has really grasped my attention, and for a very good reason. Its words are quick to remind me not only of what God in His grace and mercy delivered me from, but more importantly, what He delivered me to. It also serves to remind me of a life of service He delivered me for. Since my life has been changed by the power of God's Holy Spirit, my behavior and attitude should be a reflection of that change. This means that what I once loved and God hates, I should now hate it. And what I once hated that God loves, I should now love. This means that if I truly experienced that miracle of the new birth in Christ, my entire life ought to show evidence that this miracle really took place.
Of course, I know that as long as I remain down here in this corrupt body, that old man called the flesh will remain with me. For this reason, it is necessary for me, as well as for other Christians, to go through a daily process of growth known as sanctification. This word in the Greek means to make clean, to purify. It also indicates a process of growth or maturity. This is what Brother Peter meant in the last verse of his second epistle:
"But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ." (2 Peter 3:18)
It is very difficult for me to accept this current teaching going around telling us that mean, bitter spirited people, if they are Christians, will go to heaven. I overheard a message on the radio sometime ago in which the speaker said with a chuckle, "Listen beloved: You might have some mean, hateful Christians in your church, but if they are Christians, one day all that meanness will go away once they enter the pearly gates." I thought, "What utter nonsense!" Being a mean, hateful Christian is a contradiction in terms.
This is the bottom and top line: If I was mean and hateful before Christ saved me, that meanness and hatefulness ought to be gone or at least on its way out of me, as a result of that miracle transformation. As for any traces of it still hanging around, the Holy Spirit dwelling in my heart will give me the desire and power to get rid of that nasty, hateful spirit. I will not want it in my life, and I will work toward getting rid of it as I rely on God's power to help me get ride of it. To think that anyone who is continually hateful and mean-spirited and never changes while he is down here, will suddenly be transformed into a wonderful, loving, joy-filled member of heaven's glories once he gets there, is foreign to the teachings of Holy Scripture. The changes get underway here through daily sanctification and spiritual renewal. And this can happen only through a daily discipline of prayer and study of the Word of God.
Self examination is a good thing. It keeps us constantly aware of our accountability to a Holy, righteous God who loves us perfectly.
This verse has really grasped my attention, and for a very good reason. Its words are quick to remind me not only of what God in His grace and mercy delivered me from, but more importantly, what He delivered me to. It also serves to remind me of a life of service He delivered me for. Since my life has been changed by the power of God's Holy Spirit, my behavior and attitude should be a reflection of that change. This means that what I once loved and God hates, I should now hate it. And what I once hated that God loves, I should now love. This means that if I truly experienced that miracle of the new birth in Christ, my entire life ought to show evidence that this miracle really took place.
Of course, I know that as long as I remain down here in this corrupt body, that old man called the flesh will remain with me. For this reason, it is necessary for me, as well as for other Christians, to go through a daily process of growth known as sanctification. This word in the Greek means to make clean, to purify. It also indicates a process of growth or maturity. This is what Brother Peter meant in the last verse of his second epistle:
"But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ." (2 Peter 3:18)
It is very difficult for me to accept this current teaching going around telling us that mean, bitter spirited people, if they are Christians, will go to heaven. I overheard a message on the radio sometime ago in which the speaker said with a chuckle, "Listen beloved: You might have some mean, hateful Christians in your church, but if they are Christians, one day all that meanness will go away once they enter the pearly gates." I thought, "What utter nonsense!" Being a mean, hateful Christian is a contradiction in terms.
This is the bottom and top line: If I was mean and hateful before Christ saved me, that meanness and hatefulness ought to be gone or at least on its way out of me, as a result of that miracle transformation. As for any traces of it still hanging around, the Holy Spirit dwelling in my heart will give me the desire and power to get rid of that nasty, hateful spirit. I will not want it in my life, and I will work toward getting rid of it as I rely on God's power to help me get ride of it. To think that anyone who is continually hateful and mean-spirited and never changes while he is down here, will suddenly be transformed into a wonderful, loving, joy-filled member of heaven's glories once he gets there, is foreign to the teachings of Holy Scripture. The changes get underway here through daily sanctification and spiritual renewal. And this can happen only through a daily discipline of prayer and study of the Word of God.
Self examination is a good thing. It keeps us constantly aware of our accountability to a Holy, righteous God who loves us perfectly.
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