Will we ever come to the point in this life when we have arrived to full maturity? I doubt I ever will because I’ve got a long way to go. Just when I think I’ve surrendered an area to His authority, when I feel all new or renewed, I discover another area that I need tk let go. It’s like wearing new clothes but the same old smelly socks that I’ve had on for weeks. The process of growing deeper in Christ never stops because His love is inexhaustible. Crowder’s song “Oh How He Loves Me” comes to mind.
“The Christian life is a lifelong “race of repentance,” but we want to have arrived already. We don’t like having to become different, but repentance is the Bible’s word for “thorough, deep-seated, genuine change.” It means turning from old ways to new. You wake up to find yourself living in God’s universe, no longer sleepwalking through the universe of your desires and fears. A race of repentance calls for the ongoing reversal of our deepest instincts and opinions. You wake up again and again.” - David A. Powlison, Speaking Truth in Love: Counsel in Community
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