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Where God Changes Me
Where God Changes Me in Scripture
Read it. Post it. Memorize it. Practice it. Those are the thoughts you receive from reading Deuteronomy 6:6-9. What part of your life does scripture touch most? What passage proves most significant and meaningful in your life? How do those words, any f the words of God, help, convict, or make a difference?
Scripture usually makes the greatest impact upon what is happening in our life now. We may need to know promises from God are sure and unchanging. We might need comfort during fear. It could be there is a great decision to make, and we are uncertain what to do. Someone betrayed you, and it is hard to trust people. The list of needs continues and grows…
Here is something to believe regardless of our circumstance, and what we read in scripture.
“And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.” (Ezekiel 36:27)…
What is the first message you receive from that passage? The Spirit? The power of the Spirit? Is the Spirit bringing a standard to us as a walk which is both sure and steadfast? Friend, the Spirit delivers truth. Truth which changes me (John 16:13-16). It sanctifies us as new. It provides a steady way of living. It sanctifies us from an idea or feeling we may have had before we read and studied scripture. It does not convert us into a “church-going” person, nor just stop an immoral lifestyle, or put my priorities in order. Scripture erases an idea we have to a truth God gives. It changes a hopeless heart into a living spirit. It crushes a “stony heart” through the Spirit’s cleansing words and gives life to what was dead (Ezekiel 37)…
When God’s word cuts my heart with whatever hits me in life, the Spirit’s words sanctify and shows where we are, and where we need to be. It does not avoid conflict. It does not hide from what is uncomfortable in this world. It will brush up against and contradict self-righteousness. It approaches one who does not understand. When the Spirit of Jehovah is placed within your heart through scripture, it puts in us the good life we should believe and live…
Next time you post or read a scripture, there is one objective in the mind of God. God is wanting us to do the right thing before Him. Be ready for the change…
