I dont think we ever notice the impossible demands that God places on us. We're called to lose our lives, to be born again, to focus our everything upon Him - quite honestly, we have about as much chance of accomplishing all of this as the proverbial camel has of passing through the eye of a needle. That is the whole point though, the reply jesus gave to the disciples' fair question "who can be saved?" was "with man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." We're so inherently God hating by nature that any effort made to pray, go to church, or do any good deed - much less to love in the way that God expects of us - MUST be done through His spirit. To me, this also means that any good thing that comes out of me is yet another evidence of His grace.
"Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil." - Jeremiah 13:23
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ReplyDeleteugh...i didn't want to delete my previous comment! I just wanted to correct some bad spelling! Either way...here's what I originally wrote:
ReplyDeleteThis probably isn't along the same lines as what you're saying Edward, but it reminded me of a song by shane && shane where they sing about begging for God's spirit to move and for it to break through.
It just made me think that a lot of times we try to do things like praying, churching, reading, worshipping, and serving to help us feel close to God, but without His spirit, going through those motions doesn't really matter right? So I like this reminder of God's spirit and I will continue to "beg" for God's spirit to breakthrough and be a part of me in all that I do!