SPECIAL PROJECT
Kingdom Kids devotions authorize Jesus’ LORDship over our lives.
Romans 6:19-23
Psalm 19:14: “May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O LORD, my rock and my Redeemer.”
Every person is God’s special project. Doesn’t that warm your heart? Young Believers-in-Christ resist yielding to God’s indwelling Spirit. His job is to show us how to live right. When He sounds the alarm that warns us to not do something that we clearly want to do, we choose to either obey Him or disobey.
Either way, we’re still God’s special project.
Each of God’s kids is so special that He lets us come to Him when we’re ready. He delights receiving us “just as we are” when we choose to follow Jesus. Whenever we make that decision, the rough draft of who we are when God knit us together in our mother’s womb, begins to develop as God’s special project (Psalm 139:13).
Check out the lesson linked below for details of sanctification [sank-tif-i-KA-shon]=set apart. Living God’s blessings present a sanctified life. Our new life as a Believer grows more like Christ every day when we cooperate with His Spirit. People thrive spiritually when we choose to obey His Spirit.
We bask in His love. We depend on His power to accomplish all that we’re led to do. The opening Scripture becomes so important that we HATE thoughts which our gut knows is not pleasing in His sight. We toss out wrong words and change our thought patterns to please Him.
This is not the way of the young Believer. Maturing kids allow ourselves to grow spiritually into His special project. Christlikeness is our Father’s end-game for His kids.
Take Home Nugget
After a little time, a look in our rear-view mirrors reminds ourselves who we once were. Disgusting thoughts surface and we cringe. Facing our sin, we confess. Breathing out gratefulness, we give our Father thanks. 2 Corinthians 5:21 says, “God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.”
God’s special project worked out perfectly!
Now, it’s delightful to us to declare that same passage, “I am the righteousness of God in Christ!”
Yes, you are!
In fact, Romans 14:17 says, “For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.”
Did you know that verse 18 says, “Anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men?”
Holy Lord, thank You for this simple formula to enter Your kingdom. You do all the work. The only part we play is to obey Your Spirit! Amen.
Adapted from “End Results” by Rev. Thomas E. Engel. April 13, 2018. Portals of Prayer devotional magazine. Missouri.
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