I can't worry about whether it seems odd that I am the one who recorded the devotions in this book and yet I don't seem to have fully implemented the insights therein. I view my freedom journey as something like that Eustace experienced in Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis; Eustace removed successive layers of dragon skin on his own but finally released himself to Aslan's claws. Each journey through 100 Days has removed successive layers of my "dragon skin," and my daughter says the same. We are learning more of Christ--struggling, failing, succeeding, and struggling again--but each time we are moving further into His perfect will for our lives.
I often have an illuminating or encouraging insight in response to our day's reading, and will begin recording those here as an outward sign of my own journey forward into becoming more like my Savior. "Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 3:12-14).
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Thoughts from day 64: I deny myself for the sake of Christ’s life in
me, I discipline the flesh to strengthen the spirit. This casts my vote on the side of what is
true, more real than the temporal, more true than my own physical perceptions;
scales fall from my eyes and I can see. To
indulge the flesh is to indulge a chosen blindness to truth, it sedates me so
that I don’t respond appropriately to the truth of God’s presence with me.
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