Word for Today, Fri, 30 Dec 2005: Being Remade
Posted by: masinick <masinick@...>
Dear friends,
In Christ, we have the opportunity to be remade, not into what we have
preconceived, but in what God has designed. Are you prepared to be remade into
what God has planned and designed for you, or are you wanting to keep what has
been naturally made? Read this message and think about what it means.
Yours in Christ,
Brian
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December 30, 2005
"AND EVERY VIRTUE WE POSSESS"
All my fresh springs shall be in Thee.
Psalms 87:7
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=ps+87:7&sr=1
Our Lord never patches up our natural virtues, He re-makes the whole man on the
inside. "Put on the new man," i.e., see that your natural human life puts on
the garb that is in keeping with the new life. The life God plants in us
develops its own virtues, not the virtues of Adam but of Jesus Christ. Watch
how God will wither up your confidence in natural virtues after sanctification,
and in any power you have, until you learn to draw your life from the reservoir
of the resurrection life of Jesus. Thank God if you are going through a
drying-up experience!
The sign that God is at work in us is that He corrupts confidence in the
natural virtues, because they are not promises of what we are going to be, but
remnants of what God created man to be. We will cling to the natural virtues,
while all the time God is trying to get us into contact with the life of Jesus
Christ which can never be described in terms of the natural virtues. It is the
saddest thing to see people in the service of God depending on that which the
grace of God never gave them, depending on what they have by the accident of
heredity. God does not build up our natural virtues and transfigure them,
because our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ
wants. No natural love, no natural patience, no natural purity can ever come up
to His demands. But as we bring every bit of our bodily life into harmony with
the new life which God has put in us, He will exhibit in us the virtues that
were characteristic of the Lord Jesus.
"And every virtue we possess
Is His alone."
MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST - by Oswald Chambers //
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This devotional is copyright Oswald Chambers Publications,
< http://www.oswaldchambers.co.uk >.
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