I think of our granddaughter, Paige who got married last summer. She knows Devin to a degree but when they live together all the years that Al and I have, when she says she knows him, it will be on a much deeper level. She would then know all his ups and downs, his good points but also areas he needs to grow in etc. Al says to me nearly every day, “Thank you that you have stayed with me all these years!” We aren’t perfect and therefore we need to let the life of Jesus within us cover those areas we yet need to change….and we will be doing that until the day we die.
We all want to grow and live better lives, holy lives, and our efforts are fruitless when we do it in our own strength, plus it gets us discouraged; but we can ask by faith that the Lord to do His work in us. As it says in I Thess. 5:24, “The One who called you to this life will do it!” We have to give up struggling and trying to sanctify ourselves and trust the Lord to do it within us by His power. It is Christ within us that does the working out. (Col. 1:27) Life gets peace filled as we admit our weaknesses but see His strength and power at work in us and we are left with hearts overflowing with gratitude.
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