Given the ebb and flow of life and our own strengths and weaknesses from season to season and from event to event in life, we all may find a need to refocus occasionally. I attempt to be honest about my commonality with my brothers and sisters in Christ and my own imperfection,. So I confess that even as I write this, I'm applying renewed energy to again narrow my own focus. I'm adjusting my focus now... It's not personally flattering, but it's absolutely true that my intellect and perspective held up against that of my creator is like a flyspeck on the face of the earth and that the power of my will against His is like that of a puff of smoke against a hurricane. My own righteousness without Christ is like the content of what's scraped from the base of a pig pen against the holy, pristine and perfect righteousness of my God. This isn't the perspective of one focused on the flesh satisfying lusts of much of man's current society, but a very real one
A much loved spiritual mentor pointed out to me the difference between the Apostle Paul's past will (a life without Christ) and His new will that evolved after the Lord called Him. He then challenged me to define what my own new will would say... ...let my response be found here...
"It is not the title that people give to themselves that defines who they are; it is the fruit of what they produce." Graham Cooke