The Lord Jesus, it is you who has the Holy Spirit, with all of his powers, graces, and operations. It is by that same Spirit you have begun transforming me.
Just like the sunrise surely means the full noon sun will shine, even so, your presence in me, in us, is assurance that the full light of your presence will increase.
I still have moments I am ashamed of. There are times when I let my strength replace yours, and then I fall short of the goal. There are some old ways of thinking that I return to when times are hard.
But, O Gracious Lord, I will not give up and go back to my old life. This new life that has sprung out of your seed cannot ever be forced back where it was. Who would wake from a nightmare and then choose to return to it? No, I am made new, in you. I will always be a new creature, by your grace.
Amen.
Revelation
3:
1b - 2 “I
know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are
dead. Wake
up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not
found your works complete in the sight of my God.”
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