Five-Week Spiritual Workout 01
Yesterday I started a new series called “The Five-Week Spiritual Workout.” Lesson one is entitled “You Can Grow.”
The good news is that we can “turn the corner” and change. For example, we can be like Jesus and have a life that is centered. He was exactly who he wanted to be, and the failings of his disciples, the actions of the Pharisees and religious establishment, the crowds with their every beck and call did not make Jesus waver. All too often in my own life, I find that circumstances (and particularly what people say) can affect my mood and actions. I live by reaction.
Jesus didn’t live that way. He does His Father’s work and speask as His Father intended even in the face of betrayal and abandonment. He is able do this because his relationship with His Father in heaven is alive. While he was on this earth, I think Jesus was growing spiritually all the time. Every day he stretched his humanity open to God and he lived exactly the right kind of life.
This week – I am going to try to keep this image in my heart: of Jesus opening himself to living exactly the way the Father willed for him. I hope that you can as well.
This Sunday I am going to begin a new five-week Sunday morning Bible class series in the chapel (9:15 a.m.). I want to discuss spiritual growth in four “target areas”
