Good chapter. Wake up call: "God does not honor men and women and their deeds, books, organizations. He honors His Son." So for every activity in my life, I must assess whether it is Christ in me, working through me or if I am working in my own power. Still working...but is it good works or dead works??
I really liked the question of how you go about assessing the activities in your life.....I was really thinking about this one....often I don't even assess anything...I just do it cuz it needs to be done, I've always done it, I want to please someone. I need to really assess what I am doing and who I am doing it for. If you really take Colossians 3:17 to heart and filter everything you do through it....wow! This is one to memorize!
What is interesting to me is that our flesh and/or Satan is so deceitful that we think we are doing God's work, whatever it might be. I love what he says that when we start to be convicted by the Spirit of God that our flesh starts to get "irritable and edgy." The old-self just doesn't want to relinquish any of it's hold it has on us.
Good chapter. Wake up call: "God does not honor men and women and their deeds, books, organizations. He honors His Son." So for every activity in my life, I must assess whether it is Christ in me, working through me or if I am working in my own power. Still working...but is it good works or dead works??
ReplyDeleteI really liked the question of how you go about assessing the activities in your life.....I was really thinking about this one....often I don't even assess anything...I just do it cuz it needs to be done, I've always done it, I want to please someone. I need to really assess what I am doing and who I am doing it for. If you really take Colossians 3:17 to heart and filter everything you do through it....wow! This is one to memorize!
ReplyDeleteWhat is interesting to me is that our flesh and/or Satan is so deceitful that we think we are doing God's work, whatever it might be. I love what he says that when we start to be convicted by the Spirit of God that our flesh starts to get "irritable and edgy." The old-self just doesn't want to relinquish any of it's hold it has on us.
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