Pondering Point

It is easy to adopt agreements about ourselves such as “I will never change” or “I will always be this way” but that is neither helpful not true.

The Casting Crowns song Voice of Truth describes the giant that “reminding me of all the times I tried before and failed.” But the Voice of Truth, the voice of Christ tells you and me “a different story.”

The story from God is that in Christ you and I are new creations; the old is gone and the new has come. Believe and celebrate that you can be different. To not believe this is to make an agreement that is contrary to what the Bible teaches about you and about God's ability to work in and through you.

This includes your ability to become a compassionate, kind, non-angry person. With the help of the Spirit, you are enabled display fruit-of-the-Spirit characteristics while diminishing ungodly characteristics born of our sinful nature.