"When it all comes down, you know it all comes down to doin' the walk." Steven Curtis Chapman

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Personal Congruence: A Work of the Spirit

He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life” (2 Corinthians 3:6). 

Our confidence comes from having been made competent (See 2 Corinthians 3:4-5). But our competence is not from fulfilling the letter of the Law while our spirit yearns for something else. Instead, His Spirit fills us, wins our spirit, and brings our deepest desires into congruence with the way He designed His universe. It has always been about becoming compatible with all that is holy, beautiful, and sustainable. 

Praise God that His Spirit seeps down into our smallest cells and begins reconstructing our DNA. What bubbles back up to the surface is a body that obeys, a heart that wants to, and a mind that has quit looking for excuses. Oh, the joy of unity within oneself and towards God!

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