Proverbs 10:15-32 ~ The Purpose for the Christian Life

Excerpt:

Do I approach life looking for God’s already determined design and plan?  Or do I approach life and say, "Well, let me see.  How can I practice certain principles to make things work out for me?"

When people look at Christianity as religion they have totally missed the whole point of what it means to be a Christian. Jesus Christ has come to live inside of me to take over. Because with everything that I say and everything that I do, I am influencing everybody around me.

This can be approached legalistically, religiously, with great human effort to try to get myself to function as a human being the way I am supposed to. But the message of scripture is not the practice of certain principles. It is the realization that it is not my religious belief in Christ that saves me. I have literally received His Spirit into my spirit so that His can produce. I want people to receive from God’s Spirit speaking to them rather than me. Sometimes He lets us dangle in the flesh just to see how destructive it is to not be surrendered to Christ.

I can get upset, I can get frustrated, and I can take it out on people. It is very destructive. But God means me to be a conduit, an expression of His Spirit to give grace to the hearers.