Our lives are one long process of encountering trials, initially wondering what to do, rallying our resources to fix the problem, failing, and eventually yielding the whole thing to Christ, seeing Him in it, and praising Him no matter what. Embrace the process, I always say. It is for our great good, for trials bring us back to that place of dependence on Him where we live abundantly and joyfully. The process is the division of soul and spirit in order that we might more easily recognize the tricky flesh and flee once again to that place of letting the soul feed from the Holy Spirit and not the world. This process hurts, and the resolution requires death to self in ways we did not even know we needed. The fruit afterward is sweet, however, and makes life once again worth living.- Betty Wells
A child of God- beloved, holy, righteous, blameless, healed, forgiven, brand new, sheep, salt, light, a branch, temple of God, reconciled, a saint, God's workmanship, hidden with Christ in God, an expression of the life of Christ because He is my life, a partaker, a living stone- crucified with Christ, I no longer live but Christ lives IN ME!
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