I wonder what could happen if self-confessed followers of Jesus surrendered our human powers, and our desires for power, and began to celebrate openly our human weakness in exchange for the experience of Christ as Power within us. What could happen if, for Christ's sake, we openly delighted in our weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties?John David Geib
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Frankly, I don't see much difference between what happens when people submit themselves to God's rule and what happens when they go their own way. But I do know that there is a difference in the result. The result is always the same: God's grace in Christ makes all things possible for us to live with integrity, to live free from temptation, to live without sin. That's why Jesus was the supreme character in the New Testament, because he said it all.
Source: Beyond Beliefs
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