Some have the hope that God would change your circumstances and fix your situation. God is more concerned about changing you than your circumstances. Understand that God will allow keeping you in these difficult circumstances because He’s changing you. You see, it’s about your character. God loves you so much He doesn’t want you to stay where you are. It’s this new person that He wants to make you. Remember how He’s given you everything that pertains to life and godliness because those are the things that He wants from you. He wants to see His children godly. He wants to see His children with grace and peace multiplied upon them. And that comes from knowing Him. That comes from becoming like Him. And so you must make every effort towards these things. And then the other stuff will happen, but here’s the important question. Do you want to change? Is it the desire of your heart?
That’s a huge, huge question, and it has to do with your attitude. Are you thinking in your mind, ‘I get to change’ or ‘I have to change’? In other words, is this what you want? You know, the Holy Spirit came into you, and you get to put off all these deeds of the flesh, or are you thinking, Do you have to stop drinking? Do you have to forgive? Do you have to stop watching those movies? Do you have to.
That’s a huge, huge question, and it has to do with your attitude. Are you thinking in your mind, ‘I get to change’ or ‘I have to change’? In other words, is this what you want? You know, the Holy Spirit came into you, and you get to put off all these deeds of the flesh, or are you thinking, Do you have to stop drinking? Do you have to forgive? Do you have to stop watching those movies? Do you have to.
Those types of questions reveal a heart that is not about Get To but Have To. It reveals and gets you to question. ‘Wait, so I don’t actually want to be saved from the old Me? The flesh actually hopes you can keep some things and still get to heaven?’
The master in you actually desires the things that are right and good for you. That doesn’t mean you don’t get tempted because you’re still in this fallen world and the flesh is still with you. But the Bible says you don’t have to be that person anymore, and you’re given a new nature, and now you have everything you need to live this godly life. So go for it. Go for it. And make every effort because you get to.
You have the potential to be an amazingly godly person. You have the potential of being such a honorable, self-controlled, persevering, knowledgeable person that lives holy. And that’s why the Bible says you have that potential now, because the Holy Spirit’s in you, go after it one hundred percent. Don’t quit on those things. Make every effort towards it. That’s what God want for you. He knows your gifts in you, ‘He’s saying: Come on. Go after it. You’ve been given something,’ He has given you His Spirit. He’s given you an ability to be so holy, so righteous, so worthy, so don’t believe the lies that you can’t be this, you can’t be that. Yeah, you took some wrong turns, but here’s what the Word of God is saying. Ok, now make every effort toward the Heavenly things.
It starts with faith. You have to believe that God not only gives you this new desire to want righteousness, but He gives you the power that enables you to achieve it.
You have the potential to be an amazingly godly person. You have the potential of being such a honorable, self-controlled, persevering, knowledgeable person that lives holy. And that’s why the Bible says you have that potential now, because the Holy Spirit’s in you, go after it one hundred percent. Don’t quit on those things. Make every effort towards it. That’s what God want for you. He knows your gifts in you, ‘He’s saying: Come on. Go after it. You’ve been given something,’ He has given you His Spirit. He’s given you an ability to be so holy, so righteous, so worthy, so don’t believe the lies that you can’t be this, you can’t be that. Yeah, you took some wrong turns, but here’s what the Word of God is saying. Ok, now make every effort toward the Heavenly things.
It starts with faith. You have to believe that God not only gives you this new desire to want righteousness, but He gives you the power that enables you to achieve it.
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