ADT Marriage 2/2/15

Heard this from Sandy Witherspoon last week:

 Your spouse may be the best person for God to accomplish His desires in you. God's desire for you?

To be conformed to the image of Jesus (Romans 8:29) ***

Which leads to intimacy and dependence with God (Jesus lived in total intimacy and dependence with the Father).

Which allows us, you, me the freedom to:
1) Trust God fully
2) Hold everything loosely (what I hold too tightly leaves me in bondage)
3) Stay in the moment (not looking behind or looking to the future)

And this is- Abundant Life.

***By the way, this word: "conformed" in the original Greek (4832 summorphos) means having the same INNER form as another, jointly formed, "sharing the same inner essence-identity- showing similar behavior from have the same essential inner nature". In other words, your old sinful inner man has been crucified and now your new inner man shares the same essential identity of the One that gave you your new inner man, Christ! Galatians 2:20)