Many of us spend years of our lives acting like life with Christ is simply about trying to stop doing wrong things and trying to do right things more. We live with a scale in mind, where God has invited us into a different paradigm, one fueled by joy and invitation.
This week we’re talking about how the Christian life is about living into what God has made most true of you - that if you are in Christ, you are born again to grow into a person who honors God from the heart.
Being born again means that you are no longer a child of darkness, not beholden to the power of sin, even as you experience its presence in the world around you, remaining corruption within you, and the muscle memory of a life that valued and loved things in a topsy-turvy way, calling broken beautiful, and evil good. In Christ, your taste buds are reborn, and the trajectory of your heart’s desire is set aright.
This means daily life is about a lot more than what you don’t do. Life is meant to be lived in the schoolhouse of grace, the training ground of godliness, so that we might meet the demands of our day with godly reflexes that have been born of grace-driven effort and the kindness of the Holy Spirit.
The truth of maturity is that it takes discipline. Every area of our lives bears this out. Every relationship we participate in takes work. Every skill we want to acquire takes mastery, every plan takes preparation.
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