*Christians today striving to meet the challenges of a life in Christ.*
What are these challenges?
To rest on God.
To empty self.
To look to others.
To do the work of God.
To embrace the cross.
To work at perfection.
What people in this world, including Christians, are rather doing is the opposite.
They are depending on their own abilities and strength.
They are filling themselves up with the things the world offers, including all the filth.
They selfishly look to themselves and neglect the need and good of others.
They are busy engaged in their own desires and priorities rather than serving God and the Kingdom.
They strive for comfort, convenience, personal satisfaction, a life of leisure, even hedonism, rather than joyfully embracing the cross.
They remain the imperfect and sinful creatures that they have become, unmindful of God’s call to Christian perfection.
What are these challenges?
To rest on God.
To empty self.
To look to others.
To do the work of God.
To embrace the cross.
To work at perfection.
What people in this world, including Christians, are rather doing is the opposite.
They are depending on their own abilities and strength.
They are filling themselves up with the things the world offers, including all the filth.
They selfishly look to themselves and neglect the need and good of others.
They are busy engaged in their own desires and priorities rather than serving God and the Kingdom.
They strive for comfort, convenience, personal satisfaction, a life of leisure, even hedonism, rather than joyfully embracing the cross.
They remain the imperfect and sinful creatures that they have become, unmindful of God’s call to Christian perfection.
