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I met a friend for a very early breakfast on Saturday morning, who inspired me to blog once again. It’s been a while since I’ve written anything, but I hope to start writing a little more this year. Recently, I have found myself being exceptionally thankful for the people in my life, and I feel that it is only right to invest time in these relationships and enjoy them while the opportunity exists. I’m not suggesting that I’ll stop being friends with people, but circumstances may change, and I may not live with them or be near them, I may not be able to pop on a plane and see them or I may not always be able to identify with their current situations or environments. I guess I want to really spend this year investing in the people that I love, and pursuing a depth of relationship that doesn’t care about keeping up appearances or looking all sorted. So often, I think we miss the blessing of being really close to people, because we take so long to warm up to it. There are lots of awesome people out there, and I don’t want to miss out on the chance of really getting to know their heart. We’re made for relationship and community, and I realise that I’m saying a Christian cliche, but it just so happens that it’s true.
Another current musing...
2 Corinthians:16,21“So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! … We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
I really recommend that you all listen to this cracking sermon about how we are dead to sin, and alive in Christ. We longer have to to live as slaves of the law, but instead, we are new. We died with Christ, and now we’ve been born again. I hope that this year, I will be able to keep this at the front of my mind, as I remember my status before God. We have been given the righteouness of Christ, and that’s quite the gift!
Another current musing...
2 Corinthians:16,21“So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! … We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
I really recommend that you all listen to this cracking sermon about how we are dead to sin, and alive in Christ. We longer have to to live as slaves of the law, but instead, we are new. We died with Christ, and now we’ve been born again. I hope that this year, I will be able to keep this at the front of my mind, as I remember my status before God. We have been given the righteouness of Christ, and that’s quite the gift!
