Had one of those days where I felt like a complete failure. Life can really beat up on you. It seems that God has given me this job for the purpose of exposing places that I have not gone far enough to be conformed into His image.
I started reading this weeks lesson for Sunday School. It is really great material and one of my favorite subjects. It deals with the idea that we must be transformed into Christ's image. It also deals with the idea that it is not by working harder. That is where I am stuck right now. I am desperate to change at work and yet there are a couple of relationships at work that I just don't seem to be living my reality in Christ. I may suceed one day and turn around and screw it up the next day. Frustrating!
One of the lessons in our new material says that one of the reasons for failure is ....
Spiritual Myopia or "the inability to see clearly or rightly, describes the failure to see the value of what's at stake in our call to balance the scales between who we are in Christ and how we actually live. Most of us think that we should be more like Christ because we feel guilty when we're not. Most of us think it's important because we would be happier and more fulfilled and God might use us more. Those concerns serve as nice little motivations. But they are not the right motivtion. They are not big enough or high enough from God's perspective! "
"Here's what's at stake, according to this passage, when my life doesn't reflect what I say I believe. My life becomes a walking billboard that proclaims, "Not one body, not one Spirit, not one hope, not one Lord, not one faith, not one baptism. Not one God. Not one Father." Ephesians 4:4-6 Quote taken from Chip Ingram, "The Miracle of Life Change"
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