What Is Your Will In Christ?

GHG - Powerful Medicine To Cure The Runaway Human Ego Part 3 - Humility One Wikipedia definition describes Humility as, "A quality by which a person considering his own defects has a humble opinion of himself and willingly submits himself to God and to others for God's sake." This is the definition to which I subscribe and the one I aspire to be consumed by. It doesn't mean that as a Christian, I still carry the sins or the due judgment of my past. By the grace of God to forgive them through Christ's sacrifice, I'm no longer guilty before God. I no longer live under the conviction of them. But, I do remember ... that it's only because of His grace. I remember that by any sin, including the sin that I was born into, I was guilty and subject to judgment and thereby the punishment of death. I do realize that my right standing with God is a gift - unearned and undeserved and one for which my gratitude should never wane as long as I enjoy the et...

GHG - Powerful Medicine To Cure The Runaway Human Ego Part 2 - Grace There are various definitions and interpretations of the word grace. But I'm convicted of, and impressed by only one - the undeserved favor of God. As Christians we should recognize that it's purely by grace that we're saved. We should know that our salvation isn't something we can earn or make happen by our own efforts. If we don't ... then we're missing a huge element in our relationship to our Lord. It was made possible purely by an act of God - a benevolence or act of charity that was unmerited, unearned and certainly undeserved by man. There's nothing we can do to promote our own salvation other than choosing to accept what God has implemented... nothing. As Christians we're very much aware of the awesome grace offered to us through Christ's sacrifice. But the moment of our salvation, though the pinnacle of His grace to us, is not the beginning of, nor His only gr...

GHG - Powerful Medicine To Cure The Runaway Human Ego Part 1- Introduction Most people seem to have something they prize or pride themselves on. It may not be outward, but given a little time, you may eventually spot it. In the world, self reliance, self confidence and pride are promoted regularly as necessary elements to get ahead, achieve a higher position, to amount to, or accomplish anything. They can become core elements or foundations stones of thinking that establish a perspective that everything in ones' life is built on. In the world, the natural human focus is generally on self first. Humanistic views and values are taught in public schools, are available through worldly counseling and are shared regularly in the various forms of media and human conversation. If accepted, they can establish a rating system by which people and things are valued. It's the world's intellect - what it "knows". Growing up exposed to the world, it's h...

Over the past weeks, you may have noticed that there have been a lack of posts to this blog. I have to confess that I came to a point where I began to question whether my writing, along with other things, was becoming a performance that I felt obligated to maintain or whether I was still allowing the Holy Spirit the freedom to lead. So I've taken some time out - not just from this part of my life but from some other very worthy activities as well to submit these things to the Lord and ask some questions: Lord, though I know these things are good and that they bless your heart, are they what you really want me to be doing or have I made assumptions because of their worthiness? I felt led to participate in them at some level in the beginning, but am I continuing now because my flesh likes routine? Because it's become expected by others? Or am I still following your leading? Was your intention for me to participate only for a moment or for the duration? Where am I? I fo...