From: eric
Date: Thu Nov  2 09:28:08 MST 2006
Subject: A note from Susan

Free your minds, then, of encumbrances; control them, and put your trust in nothing but the grace that will be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. Do not behave in the way that you liked to before you learnt the truth, but make a habit of obedience. 1 Peter 1:13-14 I love how this passage invites us simultaneously to freedom and self-control. Lately I’ve heard God inviting me into a new kind of rest. Previously, I’d thought of rest as some sort of escape from my current situation. But the rest I’ve been discovering has been more about walking into the belief that God really LIKES me. This kind of rest goes with me into any situation. If I embrace the grace that is mine now (and it sounds like there’s more yet to come) in Jesus Christ, then I stand before God with nothing to accomplish or prove, and I can enjoy Him all the time and trust that He enjoys me. I’m finding that choosing to think and live this way takes some work, because I’m so used to trying to get it right. Maybe that’s where the habit of obedience comes in. I’m also finding that this sort of freedom allows me to love people better because I have nothing to prove to them either. That’s also not the way I behaved before, so it requires more change. But Peter obviously believed that people were capable of choosing this new way of life and that it would be worth the effort.

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