LAY DOWN YOUR LIFE
“I say to you, that unless your righteousness
exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no
means enter the kingdom of heaven.” -MATTHEW 5:20
We know we must
leave sin because we can appreciate how horrible it is. We do not so
quickly leave “our righteousness” because we think somehow it has been
“purified.”
Mark well, however, that God does not fix the old
man, but destroys it. He does not tell us to clean up our life, but to
lay down our life. It is not enough to forsake the wrong: we must allow
Him to crucify the right. That is, we must learn to hate our thoughts
that we may have His mind. We must give up our spiritual” desires in
order to have Christ as All.
Source: “Embrace the Cross” by Chip Brogden
http://www.chipbrogden.com/books/embrace-the-cross
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Chip Brogden
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