December 18, 2007

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  “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation;
  the old has gone, the new has come.”
  2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV

  Coming into the transforming presence of God is something that will open our eyes to a great many things.  Drawing near to Him will guarantee that we will begin to rethink the way we think, and question the way we have always considered things to be.  We progress forward toward Him until we face areas we may be unwilling to give up, or that we are not wanting to consider changing.  It’s then that we shelter our eyes from His light as He reveals truth that we choose not to see.  The painful reality is most painful to our flesh.  Our flesh chooses to cling to that which is loved in the flesh–those things that are of this earth which bring to us a sense of security and comfort.  Our flesh is unwilling to part with such things or even to consider doing so.  It is not until we can willingly deny ourselves and selfish nature, that we will move forward toward God.  It is not until we are willing to abandon all we have ever treasured, believed or thought we knew, that we will truly “throw off everything that hinders” so that we can fully come into the transforming presence of our Lord.
  
  
  He who breathes into our hearts the heavenly hope,
  will not deceive or fail us when we press forward to its realization.
  ~ Anonymous
  
  
  When God is going to do something wonderful, He begins with a difficulty….
  When He is going to do something miraculous, He begins with an impossibility.
  ~Charles Inwood
  

  

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