What actually took place is this: I tried keeping rules and working my head off to please God, and it didn’t work. So I quit being a “law man” so that I could be God’s man. Christ’s life showed me how, and enabled me to do it. I identified myself completely with him. Indeed, I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not “mine,” but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I am not going to go back on that. Is it not clear to you that to go back to that old rule-keeping, peer-pleasing religion would be an abandonment of everything personal and free in my relationship with God? I refuse to do that, to repudiate God’s grace. If a living relationship with God could come by rule-keeping, then Christ died unnecessarily. (Galatians 2:19-21 MSG)
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Blinders
While sitting on i66 this morning in traffic it occurred to me that everyone was intently focused straight ahead, not much concerned with what was to their left or right, but intently focused forward. It was almost as if they had blinders on. It also occurred to me that we can get so focused on what is in our path, we fail to see the beauty of what god has given us. We are so intent on focusing all our energy on what we see that we neglect to see the plan god has for each one of us. I pray that I am always mindful and aware of his will and his plan. Not to focus on what is in front of me, but to seek his will in all I say and do.
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