The amazingness that is my God!

Wow! That is pretty much all I can say about what God is doing in me these days. He is blowing my mind! We started a new house church, and God has been very faithful in that, and I praise Him for it. The other week Jeremy brought the book of Colossians 2 to share. I have been stuck in Colossians ever since and I have really been looking over it and seeing where I can apply it to my life. The heading of chapter 2 is "Not Philosophy but Christ". I like that. It brings me back to a quote by Corrie Ten Boom ~ We do not bring people to a faith, a religion, or a doctrine, but to a person, Jesus Christ.

6 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,

7 rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

8 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;

10 and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.

God has been showing me where I have indeed been cheated through philosophy and empty deceit according to the tradition of men. He has been rooting these things out of me and replacing the principals of the world that have deceived me with the truthful principals of Christ. He is showing me where my life does not line up with His word. I do not want to mis-represent Christ. He honors His Word above His name, and I am to be a representation of Him name in the earth, therefore I MUST be rooted and built up in Him, firmly established in the faith. I am complete IN HIM, which means that I MUST remain in Him. Daily WALKING in His Spirit, dwelling in His Spirit! As He has been showing me this I have found myself praying in His Spirit more that I have in quite some time...needless to say, its been amazing.

He didn't stop with ripping the selfish-me-centered doctrine from my heart, but went on to light a flame under one of the most intense relationships I have...the relationship I share with my sister. He has seriously challenged things I attribute to my personality, but really contradict the person He is calling me to be and need to change. It has been a very tear-filled process, but one I pray that He will get much Glory from in my death (because that is what it is, my dying to self that He may be made alive in me).

But in all of this He is SO faithful. I have found more of Him in step, around every corner, with every breath than seems humanly possible. It is an honor for me to prove my love for Him through obedience to His commands( John 14:15).