"As you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him." So how did we receive Christ Jesus in our life? We received Him by faith... We confessed our sins, we surrendered control of our life to Him, and we accepted by faith that He has forgiven us and that He is walking with us. So it is logical to conclude then, that this is how the Christian walk continues.
We continue to stay repentant at the foot of the cross... when/if we knowingly commit sin, we immediately confess. We continue to surrender afresh to God each day. And we continue to walk by faith trusting in His strength. We don't have what we need to be strong. We don't have what we need to be saved. We didn't in the beginning and we don't now... but in Him we have all things!
I love Colossians 2:9-13: "For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses."
Ellen White writes: "We can receive of heaven’s light only as we are willing to be emptied of self. We cannot discern the character of God, or accept Christ by faith, unless we consent to the bringing into captivity of every thought to the obedience of Christ. To all who do this the Holy Spirit is given without measure." (Desire of Ages, p. 181)
So let us stay emptied of self that He can fill us, that He can live through us, that our lives will truly be for His honor and glory!
Tomorrow's Reading: Prov. 9-10 and Ps. 90
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