What if one of the best roads to helping the Church was to work on ourselves?
I have to admit this is not a thought I am particularly fond of. That might seem a surprising thought; after all, I seem to write a great deal about working on myself. However, I suspect if I got one level down from that thought, I would realize it is not "working on myself" that is the issue in that sense, because what I think of as "self-work" and what God thinks of as "self-work" are two different things.
I have to admit this is not a thought I am particularly fond of. That might seem a surprising thought; after all, I seem to write a great deal about working on myself. However, I suspect if I got one level down from that thought, I would realize it is not "working on myself" that is the issue in that sense, because what I think of as "self-work" and what God thinks of as "self-work" are two different things.
The "self-work" I enjoy most are the things that make me a better person, too often in all of the wrong ways - the ways of the world. The "self-work" God wants are the ways that make me more like Him, the grinding down of my sin and selfishness in the relentless pursuit of making my soul the equivalent of a mirror that reflects Him.
Were we to do that, what would His church look like?
Matthew 7:5 Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thy own eye, and then shalt thou see to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye DRV
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