July 30th - Reflection

Ephesians 4:17-24 (NRSV)
A new self in the likeness of God

Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer live as the Gentiles live, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart. They have lost all sensitivity and have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. That is not the way you learned Christ! For surely you have heard about him and were taught in him, as truth is in Jesus. You were taught to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to clothe yourselves with the new self, created according to the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

Reflection
God is renewing you day by day. God is turning your life around. God has taken that old lump of clay with all the sin and has begun to reform you into something new. Will you change? Or will you dry out and harden in your old ways?

Surely you have heard about God! Put away your former way of life. Get over yourself and get out of the way, God has wonderful work to do in your life.

Prayer
Lord, I repent of my sin and ask for you to change me into what you would have me be. Help me get over myself and get out of your way. --- Amen