Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Reflections on "My Utmost" November 18 Part III

"God will not discipline us, we must discipline ourselves. God will not bring every thought and imagination into captivity; we have to do it. Do not say – O Lord, I suffer from wandering thoughts. Don’t suffer from wandering thoughts. Stop listening to the tyranny of your individuality and get emancipated out into personality."

God works in us (Philippians 2:12-13); we are transformed from glory to glory by looking upon, by meditating on His word, and thus receiving the blessings which He has in store for us:

"And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." (Romans 12:2)

Paul exhorts his readers to "be transformed", not "transform yourselves." Who then works the transformation in us?

The Holy Spirit, through the Word of God:

"But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. " (2 Corinthians 3:18)

The original text does not include the phrase "as in a glass"; therefore, we are directly looking on Him through the Word of God.

Just as Jesus taught of Himself in the Holy Scriptures (cf Luke 24: 27)

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