Thoughts
on Michael Wells’ teachings in Sidetracked In The Wilderness - # 39
Michael’s book is
available through:
Abiding Life
Ministries International
Littleton, Colorado
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Wilderness. Why a blog? So that multitudes can receive the weekly
thoughts I express on Michael’s writings in an easy manner
The
LIFE OF CHRIST begins to flow like a tsunami from these pages forward in
Michael’s book! Line after line,
paragraph after paragraph, page after page, chapter after chapter…hang onto
your seats! You are in for the ride of
your life…His life (Colossians 3:4 tells us His life is our life!).
WORKING TO
REVEAL vs WORKING TO BECOME
excerpt
from pages 109-112 of SIW (5th printing,
March 1998)
excerpt
from pages 106-109 of SIW (14th printing,
March 2012)
(used with permission from
ALMI):
…behavior
cannot change what we are. We are what
we are by birth, and to change we must be born again. Again, Christian growth is simply accepting
what we have always been from the first day we accepted Christ. The word grow
teaches this very thing, as it means to expand what already exists…either we
are growing in bondage to Adam’s life or growing in the freedom of Christ’s
life.
…If
you are born again, your old Adam-life has been put to death and replaced with
Christ’s very life…if we know who we are, then the doing is natural.
…this
is true salvation – to be free from the old identity and unholy trinity…the
carnal believer walks after the flesh and then makes attempts to walk after the
Spirit, never knowing which fits best…
Throw
away those old garments of sin, failure, and defeat, and put on Christ.
It is one of the most
dynamic truths of the New Testament: a Christian’s old Adam-life has been put
to death and replaced with Christ’s very life.
Unbelievably, far too many cannot accept that. Accepting what we have always been from the
first day we accepted Christ is really impossible IF we cannot accept our old
Adam-life has been put to death and replaced with Christ’s very life. Simple.
Short. Succinct. The focus never leaves the old
Adam-life. The efforts continue to be
those of trying to change and “clean up” the old life, instead of walking in
the REST of knowing our life is Christ’s life.
How nice it is to
live wanting to reveal the new me, instead of working to become something I
could never attain. No wonder that was a
sickening life!
How nice it is to
know that growing in Christ is simply
accepting what we have always been from the first day I accepted Christ. Boy, that takes a load off. And wow…it is so relaxing to grow by “accepting” instead of “working”!!!
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