Hey friends!
I’ve actually got some new blog posts coming down the line, so be excited. A lot of them are serious, but packed full of juicy goodness. God is doing a lot with my move to Nashville and it’s going to be a pretty crazy road. He’s showing me a lot. This is an excerpt from my journal a few days ago…
I don’t believe. I have such a hard time believing. So often I’m just going through life, pulling up my bootstraps and just going. Nowhere. Just going. I’m not headed in any specific direction, I just wake up and go. I don’t take the time to focus in the morning to realize that I am created and loved by God. Yeah, I’ll read my Bible, but I won’t realize who I am and what Christ has done for me. Who GOD is. What HE’s done. It’s not about me. It’s all about him.
I was reading this blog entry at 268generation.com, which is what inspired this post. Missionaries blow my mind. So often I’ve heard about people bringing someone to Christ, to the awesome thing that Salvation is. But do I believe in my own salvation? Am I convinced? I don’t think so. At the root, at the core, I don’t think I believe that I am saved. Why? Well, what do my actions show? When I sin, I grovel. I beg for forgiveness. I walk in shame realizing I’m an awful sinner with no hope aside from Christ. Then I do my best to figure out how can I not sin again. What’s wrong with this picture?
There is no joy.
Where is my joy? Christ HAS saved me! PAST TENSE! It HAS happened, it is already finished! I am his, and He is mine. There isn’t anything God can do to save me more; I can’t be justified again. I’m already justified. I believe in the resurrection and that Christ has died for my sins. Now I just need to believe that he resurrected so that I could be resurrected to the same life, and life without sin and death. Is it possible? Completely. Anything is possible, right? So let’s pursue the prize with everything we’ve got. I AM saved. Now I need to walk in my Salvation. I encourage you, to do the same.
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Great note. See also Galatians 2:20. That’s my issue: I forget and try to live my own life rather than allowing Christ to live through me.
Life is a daily battle between the old us (who we were before Christ) and the new us (who we are forgiven in Christ). Even the Apostle Paul struggled to do the good he wanted to do and continued to do the bad he didn’t want to do. This didn’t mean he didn’t believe, it meant he was human. We all fight that battle daily. And as a result we all have to learn to live in grace. It is grace that transforms, grace that gives hope. I’ll be praying for your time in Nashville!