Growing by Him
I understand this new life I live is not a life unto self, but to do His will. For I know the whole of evil and the ruin of sin is that mankind turned from God's will to do His own. Christ Jesus redemption work is to restore mankind back to God to do His will. It is the Holy Spirit within me that conforms me to do His will. I act, I believe and I live a life dead to the old man, dead to the rudiments of the world and most of all dead to my will. I now live a life within the veil, a life alive unto God sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all. My body is no longer mine but His. He has prepared me this new life and I must live a life that is ready at any moment to do His will not mine. For I am but a living sacrifice holy and acceptable unto Him. In this body "grace and truth" will reign and triumph. I have been redeemed of the old man and now become a temple for His Spirit. I have been baptized into Christ's death an...