Our Best Interest

Once we have been drawn by God to trust in His Son, we are told to renew our mind—to let the mind of Christ be at home in us! We’re required to live surrendered to Christ’s lordship over every area of our life—not merely in those areas wherein we have no struggles. [See Matthew 5:47] We’re called to love other people---all sorts of people—the kind, the not-so-kind, the easy-going, peace-loving, and the downright eccentric! We’re to forgive as we’ve been forgiven and shun thinking of ourselves more highly than we ought. Dear reader, do you get the idea that these things are all impossible to consistently do apart from God’s enabling grace? He knows this, just as He knows each of us!

Frankly, quite a few expectations of the Spirit-yielded life require our doing exactly what we simply do NOT want to do. Lest we allow our flesh, the world, or the devil to persuade us to give up trying to walk worthily of our high calling in Christ, reflect on the fact that our Lord has gifted us with “every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms” [Ephesians 1:3, 4]. God be praised for equipping us to live this earthly life in a manner that is above the natural.

Put another way, this life of yieldedness is hard, and not always easy to see as being in our best interest, and yet God says it is! Ah, but this is why the Christian life is described as being a supernatural one; it is initiated by God, fed and encouraged by God, sustained and protected by our God; moreover, we have His promise that He’s the One who will perfect that which concerns us [Psalm 138:8; Philippians 1:6]. We should be ever THANKFUL for that!

PRAYER: Dear Father, thank You for Your many promises, especially those which assure us that the good work of salvation that You initiated within us will be completed by You. Help us to remain committed to daily choosing Your ways rather than those of the unredeemed culture that surrounds us. Thank You, in Jesus’ faithful name; amen!
By Sis. Denise Diggs