Day: January 28, 2015

“Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God’s action in them find that God’s Spirit is in them—living and breathing God! Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. And God isn’t pleased at being ignored.”

In a world obsessed with self even more than in any other time in history, today’s verse is a reminder for us to pause just long enough to assess where our attentions are — and if they are indeed more on self than on God — to refocus our view and our energies so that we get the equation right.  This is a “living and breathing God” that resides within us.  Let’s take a moment to consider that, and to seek out God’s direction and guidance in all our endeavors.  There is no use in testing our own “moral muscle”; instead, let us practice leaning on our heavenly father who cares for us, has a plan for us, and is ever present with you.  Believer, let us not ignore this truth!