Trying to be a Christian

Are you saying to God, “I’m really trying to be a Christian”? Do you find yourself getting discouraged with your Christian walk? Maybe you wish you could see more change in your life. You want to be better, but don’t know how. Do you feel like you are beating your head against a wall? Are you tired? What is the key? Is it for a limited few?

His Power

First of all, let me say that I totally get it. I have been there. I learned if we want to be Christ-like, there is one important key. We need to recognize that it is not within our human capabilities to be Christ-like. Simply stated, human efforts cannot produce spiritual fruit. Only God can create His life in us. If we abandon our efforts and yield ourselves to God, He will have the freedom to complete His work which He started in us. Philippians 1:6 says, “He that hath begun a work in you will complete it.”

Supernatural Life

We simply need to quit trying so hard to be like Christ and simply go to God with expectant hearts waiting on Him relinquishing every effort on our part to get better. He will live through us giving us a supernatural Christian life!

While waiting on, Him we focus on looking to Him, just looking. In 2 Corinthians 3:18 it says, “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.”

Notice it says, “being transformed”, not transform yourselves. The power that raised Christ from the dead lives in us and will transform us into His likeness. Now, doesn’t that take a weight off our shoulders? It is His power, not our ability. And it is for everyone. No one is excluded.

To be like Him, we need to be totally dependent on Him. Until we come to the place of relinquishing all our efforts, as good as they seem are simply that – our human efforts. Our humanness can never be godlike. We can fix up ourselves and become a better human, but that is not godlike. We just make a better human. That is not what God wants.

Colossians 3:3 tells us that when we were born again our old life died. We can’t fix it up.  We are dead to who we were and our life is now hidden with Christ in God. We now have a new life – His life growing in us. Let’s step out of the way and allow Him to work in us changing us into a new person. Our daily walk with Him will be so different. For more see No Regrets.

Dear Lord, may we each day come to You acknowledging we need You and are totally dependent on You to change us. We give You permission to change us. As we read Your word and learn more about who You are and who we are in You may we focus on You and keep our eyes on You.

Philippians 2:13 “…for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for his good pleasure.”