Ok, so you’re convinced. God has been reaching out to us from before the beginning of creation. Everything God has done points us to Him and His perfect design for our lives. When we stray from that picture and rebel against God, He provides a way home to the Father through the Son and then He gives us the Holy Spirit. We come home to God. Now what?
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment” (Matthew 22:36-38 [NIV]).
God wants us to get to know Him. God wants a relationship with us. God wants to walk with us. This is our God. It shouldn’t surprise us, then, when we hear Jesus talking about God’s commandments in the law. God wanted this relationship from the very beginning. He forgives us for the times we did not want it and gives us what we need to walk with Him again.
But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you. (Romans 8:10-11 [NIV])
His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. (2 Peter 1:3 [NIV])
Living a life of godliness is not about stopping the bad things in our lives and doing good. It’s about building a relationship with God. Its about drawing near to God. It’s about walking through life with God. When we do, it results in God’s design for our lives. It results in life.
The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you--they are full of the Spirit and life. (John 6:63 [NIV])
How about you? Do you walk by the Spirit of God? Does it give you life?
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