I just received this tonight from www.gracegems.org. I love God's timing!
It makes me think of how we mentioned in parenting class tonight that giving our children the moral reason why is not a "one and done" event. It is a process that requires consistency and one that goes on until our children become young adults. I talked about how sometimes I expect my children to show self-control in areas that I am still struggling with as an adult. If I have not learned some of these life lessons at 40 years old why do I expect my 11 year old to have mastered it by now? Pretty crazy when you think about it!
We are all being transformed daily in our Christian walk and it is a life long process. As the Grace Gem below says, it's our "Life-Mission!" Enjoy! I hope you are blessed!
A believer's life-mission
(J. R. Miller, "Life's Byways and Waysides")
"If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" 2 Corinthians 5:17
"Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind!" Romans 12:2
"And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into His likeness." 2 Corinthians 3:18
The character of every true believer is being transformed. If Christ dwells in you, He will produce in you the same kind of life which He himself lived when He was on the earth. This change does not come in its completeness, or instantaneously the moment one believes in Christ. But it does begin then.
Life is large. Life's lessons are many and hard to learn! Paul was an old man when he said, "I have learned, in whatever state I am, therein to be content." It had taken him many years to learn this lesson of contentment.
Likewise, it takes us years to get life's lessons learned. But nothing is clearer, than that a believer's life-mission --is to be transformed into the likeness of Christ. There is to be a transformation of character. Holiness must become the every-day dress of the Christian. We are called to be saints, even in this sinful world.
"So that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe!" Philippians 2:15
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