Self-will vs Maturity
Once we become saved we become His. Now starts the growing process...Which is the growing of a new creature in Christ...The growing of this new creation in us starts at the moment of salvation. With the promise to each one of us, of growing this new creation into a full grown man in Christ...
Each believer is given the same hope, the same help, the same grace. What a believer chooses to do with this grace that is freely given to them, is the choice of the believer’s heart....They can choose to allow this grace to grow them into a full grown man in Christ. Or they can choose to not grow, or grow just a little, but to remain mostly as they are, which scripture describes as a babe, child or young man in Christ.... Saved, with a degree of joy, and a degree of victory. And than other times, joyless, even to the extent of being a severe judge of those that would choose to grow and not remain as they are...
Scripture says that if we would be disciples of His, (people that would follow after Christ), the one thing we must do is deny self...For this is the one thing that keeps a believer back from following Christ fully. Their love of their own lives, their love of their own will...For self cannot be made to follow Christ....Self or own will is just that, that life in us that demands its own way...This is why, as scripture says, it must be given up, denied or reckon dead...For it can not but want what it wants, for it is a life onto itself, it’s own will, it’s own life...
The reason that own will is evil, is because own will is that will that doesn’t care about what is right, but only what it wants in any and every situation...What looks good to it or gives it an advantage...Doing what is right in the situation takes second place to what it wants... Therefore must this will be given up....For having to live and walk in self will is what we are saved from...This will that can not walk in righteousness, but demands to be lifted up above righteousness, that it might have the pre-eminence ....
For righteousness, which is doing right in each and every set of circumstances, is that thing that is right in that set of circumstances... It is doing the right thing, that is the only thing that God can bless with joy, peace, growth, increase and all good things....
Self or own will is that thing that stands against righteousness. Therefore self will is that thing that stands against us growing in this grace that comes from God.... For the grace is always there for the receiving. For Christ has died and been given to mankind, now by faith we can choose to grab unto this Gift of God or not... We can choose to turn to Him with our whole heart or only to a degree and keep some back to the fantasies we find in our mind...
For self, thinking it sees, thinking it knows, thinking it is something different or something special... It is that that builds the kingdom of self and own will. For it deceives itself, it thinks that which it sees as right and wrong is what righteousness is, not knowing that God’s righteousness is that which is free from all disorder...Which is impossible for man to walk in on his own.
This is the gift of righteousness to man that man can not walk in but by faith.....By trusting in the operation of God in them, can and will self-will be set aside, therefore by faith will they come from under its power....Which is all done by faith in the operation of God in the heart...
For God is God and He is good and He loves and has His heart set on manifesting His righteousness, which is His salvation, in us in the time of this life... The choice of allowing Him, is the choice each believer’s heart makes... The fruit of that decision will be seen in the believers life...For nothing can manifest God but God Himself...
For Christ or self is the choice set before man..
Be blessed in the moment by moment choosing, Not me
Once we become saved we become His. Now starts the growing process...Which is the growing of a new creature in Christ...The growing of this new creation in us starts at the moment of salvation. With the promise to each one of us, of growing this new creation into a full grown man in Christ...
Each believer is given the same hope, the same help, the same grace. What a believer chooses to do with this grace that is freely given to them, is the choice of the believer’s heart....They can choose to allow this grace to grow them into a full grown man in Christ. Or they can choose to not grow, or grow just a little, but to remain mostly as they are, which scripture describes as a babe, child or young man in Christ.... Saved, with a degree of joy, and a degree of victory. And than other times, joyless, even to the extent of being a severe judge of those that would choose to grow and not remain as they are...
Scripture says that if we would be disciples of His, (people that would follow after Christ), the one thing we must do is deny self...For this is the one thing that keeps a believer back from following Christ fully. Their love of their own lives, their love of their own will...For self cannot be made to follow Christ....Self or own will is just that, that life in us that demands its own way...This is why, as scripture says, it must be given up, denied or reckon dead...For it can not but want what it wants, for it is a life onto itself, it’s own will, it’s own life...
The reason that own will is evil, is because own will is that will that doesn’t care about what is right, but only what it wants in any and every situation...What looks good to it or gives it an advantage...Doing what is right in the situation takes second place to what it wants... Therefore must this will be given up....For having to live and walk in self will is what we are saved from...This will that can not walk in righteousness, but demands to be lifted up above righteousness, that it might have the pre-eminence ....
For righteousness, which is doing right in each and every set of circumstances, is that thing that is right in that set of circumstances... It is doing the right thing, that is the only thing that God can bless with joy, peace, growth, increase and all good things....
Self or own will is that thing that stands against righteousness. Therefore self will is that thing that stands against us growing in this grace that comes from God.... For the grace is always there for the receiving. For Christ has died and been given to mankind, now by faith we can choose to grab unto this Gift of God or not... We can choose to turn to Him with our whole heart or only to a degree and keep some back to the fantasies we find in our mind...
For self, thinking it sees, thinking it knows, thinking it is something different or something special... It is that that builds the kingdom of self and own will. For it deceives itself, it thinks that which it sees as right and wrong is what righteousness is, not knowing that God’s righteousness is that which is free from all disorder...Which is impossible for man to walk in on his own.
This is the gift of righteousness to man that man can not walk in but by faith.....By trusting in the operation of God in them, can and will self-will be set aside, therefore by faith will they come from under its power....Which is all done by faith in the operation of God in the heart...
For God is God and He is good and He loves and has His heart set on manifesting His righteousness, which is His salvation, in us in the time of this life... The choice of allowing Him, is the choice each believer’s heart makes... The fruit of that decision will be seen in the believers life...For nothing can manifest God but God Himself...
For Christ or self is the choice set before man..
Be blessed in the moment by moment choosing, Not me
