New Creations

It is Christ in me, not me. His power so I will not boast and so I know it has nothing to do with me.

I recently heard a sermon on being a new creation. "If we hang out with Jesus, we will fall in love with Him and progressively become dead to sin." It is comforting that it is progressive (not all in one day) and that we actually are dead to sin. Another pastor said, the old is just a remnant, it's not the whole of who we are, a remnant! Often we act as though our flesh or the old man is the whole of who we are. I truly believe we can have freedom from those things that weigh us down, our thorns, this side of heaven.

I have felt at times in this season that God is on the move. I feel blessed by our church and I am really wanting to hear the Word taught and understand it. I want to know what I believe and have a Biblical base for for that Truth and lived out for my children in really practical ways and for any future ministry if God sees fit.

I was reading in a Bible study about when Paul was leaving the Ephesians that he warned them to keep watch over themselves and their flock. that "We simply cannot lead others to a place to which we are not steering our own lives." and "a crucial part of keeping watch over a flock (my children for me) is knowing the Word of God." Growing up in the church I have felt at times a laziness at learning the Word. I want truth that I live out practically taken from Scripture and passed down to my little ones.

I know we are trying to figure out our space in this time but I am hopeful for what God has in store for us. I no longer want to "just get by" or live without the freedom we have in Christ and being guided by the Holy Spirit, I want to be different. But I also know I want all of this today! It is so hard to wait. I see something good I want, I claim it and then I want change. I know I need to submit that God's ways and timing.