Friday, April 21, 2006

My Own Effort?!?

We now resume our regularly scheduled Random Spiritual Thoughts...


“Have you lost your senses?” Paul wrote to the Galatians. “After starting your Christian lives in the Spirit, why are you now trying to become perfect by your own human effort?” Galatians 3:3

Amen to that...and it dovetails nicely with Paul's words to the church in Philippi: "being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it...for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to His good purpose." Philippians 1:6, 2:13.

God does His part and then some--we just have to show up and partake of the blessing--but we have to show up, and that often, in order to be under the influence of the "Right Spirit"--otherwise we're under the influence of "same-old-same-old."


As always, you've been prayed for today...

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