I have for you both good news and bad news. The good news is that if you have accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, He transferred His righteousness to you for the sake of salvation. The bad news is that even if you are saved and going to heaven, to live a holy life on earth will require some sacrifice and cost. The first step in the spiritual life is your view and opinion of others. If they are saved, God sees them as righteous "in Christ." I and you must agree with God on this no matter how sinful they appear to us. Secondly, just a we notice the spec in our brother's eye, we cannot ignore the log in our own. To walk in a way that honors the work of Jesus is giving up of one's own will to the Holy Spirit of God. That means that you are not the boss of your own life anymore. You recognize and agree that you have been bought with a price and no longer is your will what counts. The responsible Christian will allow the Spirit to conform our life to Christ's so that we will be a new man and live in newness of life.
Daily Prayer: Lord, it is far easier to describe the spiritual life than to live it. Please, by your grace, allow the Holy Spirit to do His illumination work in our life so that we can see our life for what it really is, instead of what we imagine it to be. In Your Holy Name we pray Amen.
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