Question 9. Accepting what is true about me . Look at this word "accept" . The look at the word "strive" . These two words .
I guess if I do not put down what the question was about, those who do not have the workbook won't be able to make sense of this.
Let me just say this, today at church our speaker said something radical. He said, "we are Christ." When we minister to one another we should be able to so as Christ would. Some people get a little defensive when you say stuff like that. They act like you think you are something special, not someone who has learned humility and to receive the Grace of God.
But our workbook says this, If we refuse to enter the Room of Grace , we will constantly be striving in the Room of Good Intentions. We will strive to change into something we are not yet: godly. Well, these guys are on the right track, because if you strive to become godly rather than receive god like attributes you will never make it. Of course that is where that fake it til you make mentality started . Someone said, you should act like Christ , but you couldn't so , you also couldn't let them know you couldn't so you began faking it .
However, there is another twist to this . Some have become so sure they can't be godly they don't even try to let the life of Christ show through them. They have become convinced that it was all a dream that they could never live and just settle for the hum drum existence of mediocrity.
God did not call us to be His sons and then expect us to sit on our hands all day. He did not pay such a great price for us to have life and life more abundantly and then say,"okay, you don't have to take it ." Well, that is wrong, He did to say that , because He gives us a free choice. We can take it if we want or we can refuse it, and say,"Oh, I am not good enough for You to be so nice to me."
The answer to the question (in the book )is: He does these things in our lives not because we strive but because we trust Him to do them in us.
Gal. 3:5
I guess if I do not put down what the question was about, those who do not have the workbook won't be able to make sense of this.
Let me just say this, today at church our speaker said something radical. He said, "we are Christ." When we minister to one another we should be able to so as Christ would. Some people get a little defensive when you say stuff like that. They act like you think you are something special, not someone who has learned humility and to receive the Grace of God.
But our workbook says this, If we refuse to enter the Room of Grace , we will constantly be striving in the Room of Good Intentions. We will strive to change into something we are not yet: godly. Well, these guys are on the right track, because if you strive to become godly rather than receive god like attributes you will never make it. Of course that is where that fake it til you make mentality started . Someone said, you should act like Christ , but you couldn't so , you also couldn't let them know you couldn't so you began faking it .
However, there is another twist to this . Some have become so sure they can't be godly they don't even try to let the life of Christ show through them. They have become convinced that it was all a dream that they could never live and just settle for the hum drum existence of mediocrity.
God did not call us to be His sons and then expect us to sit on our hands all day. He did not pay such a great price for us to have life and life more abundantly and then say,"okay, you don't have to take it ." Well, that is wrong, He did to say that , because He gives us a free choice. We can take it if we want or we can refuse it, and say,"Oh, I am not good enough for You to be so nice to me."
The answer to the question (in the book )is: He does these things in our lives not because we strive but because we trust Him to do them in us.
Gal. 3:5
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