For What it’s Worth…

Nobody likes having their will crossed. From an early age we learn to react with anger and outrage when someone dares to impose upon us, to prevent us achieving our aims, to deprive us of what we perceive to be our right to self-determination. But this makes for a clash of wills for the Christian because the Christian lives not according to their own word, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
This is why the foundation of the Christian life is repentance and faith and this is why each and every day of discipleship with Jesus involves dying to ourselves and living to him. As Christians, we should be able to see the fruit of God “crossing our will” in the changes that he has made in us to make us more Like Christ. Can you?