From February, 1998
I reflect on all that God expects from His own people. He commands us to love in truth, to be merciful and to worship in Spirit and truth and so much more - all of which He enables us to do in Christ. He has given us everything that we need to please Him. His Spirit in us creates the desire and will for us to obey God and delight in doing so.
It occurs to me that the commands of God are not directing us to muster up what we don't feel but rather to remind us of what He will do. By God's Spirit, because we are a new creation in Christ, we will do what He commands because the Holy Spirit, given by Jesus Christ cannot be disobedient to God.
God's words and commands should help us to grow in faith, knowing that we will accomplish all He has set for us providing we follow our guide, the Spirit of God in Christ. We need not read God's commands with guilt at what we have not done, but with joy at what the Spirit is working and will work in us.
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