Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
Romans 8:36-37, “As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.”
The self-life does not know how to properly relate to environment.
It blames circumstances.
It blames the wife, the husband, the boss–whomever.
But in the verses above, we see how Paul related to his environments.
He was living out of another source, and from that source he gathered up all his environments as raw material for the self to be terminated, for the self to be crossed out once again, so that resurrection life could come forth.
An undealt-with self does not properly relate to environment.
Rather, it is confused.
It is frustrated.
It is hurt.
It is hoping for a better day.
It does everything but deal with the Lord.
It does everything but allow itself to be terminated.
In its ignorance it does not know how to relate to environment, how to relate in life, or how to relate in the truth.
These are all characteristics of an ignorant and undealt-with self, and expose that we are still coming from the wrong place.
We do not yet come from life.
We do not meet our environments with God’s view.
God’s view of our environment is that all day long we are just being led to put to death the practices of the body (Rom. 8:13-14).
This means we are being led into a new kind of reaction–led to put to death, led to react with the cross.
We are being led into another circumstance for more of the self to surface so that it can be interrupted and terminated.
In this way all things are working together for good–for our conformity to Christ (Rom. 8:28-29).
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
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