Choosing Life
I don't know exactly what this post is going to turn out to be! I only know that I have thoughts swirling in my head regarding our constant process of death to self, and regeneration in Him.
Sometimes that death to self comes in the form of an inward self discovery. He whispers to our Spirit, and we are convicted of injury, illness, lie or sin inside ourselves and are given grace to submit to Him in this area. Somtimes death to self comes in the form of a beating. A circumstance just keeps pounding down on us till we cannot raise ourselves up again in our own strength and it takes His breath of life in that area for us to ever stand again. I believe our greatest times of sanctification ... death to self and regeneration in Him, come when we are faced with this choice: Do things your way, and die, or do things His way, and live. This is the essence of all death to self and yet we are not often so fortunate in our circumstance being this transparent. We all face one death of one kind or another. The question throughout our lives is which kind of death will we choose? To choose the death of the Phoenix seems obviously preferable.
There are moments when my choice between life and death is very vague and cloaked in the gray of my personal thorns, but I long and pray for the days, circumstances and people that provide me the soul altering moments of transparency ... and grant me opportunity to make a choice in the light of His truth ... as opposed to my own.
Posted in: on 19.2.08 at at 12:20
