“A whole person is God in a person,” Norman P. Grubb* The Liberating Secret by Norman P. Grubb, Zerubbabel Press, Blowing Rock, North Carolina, (1955) 2010, pg. 52. Not whole apart from God We were created with the ability to communicate with God and be in close friendship with Him. That connection was severed. Cut off. No life. Dead. We are not whole and can never be whole apart from God. God wants to restore it. However, we must admit…
Let me share with you what I discovered about my new identity. Like many born-again believers, I thought I was essentially the same person just saved and forgiven. Then it was up to me to live the Christian life the best I could and maybe over time I would develop a better character. I didn’t understand that I wasn’t the same person I was before my new birth, that all was new. My past influenced my life. Now I know…
Do you know as a believer that you are a brand new person? “But, I don’t feel new,” you say. Have you been a fearful, nervous, co-dependent, suicidal, success-driven, short-tempered, self-centered, victimized person? Are we not reminded over and over again of our past life? Don’t we easily slip back into the old way of living, of thinking, of reacting? New is forward That is why it is essential that we live from the cross pointing forward. The past is…
