Thoughts
on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength - # 137
Michael’s book is
available through:
Abiding Life Ministries
International
Littleton, Colorado
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BLOG, called Living Life With a Capital “C”. Why a
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weekly thoughts I express on Michael’s writings in an easy manner.
“The
good Christian life”…or, simply, “the Christian life”…neither is in the
Bible. And Michael shows us how we eat
from the wrong tree so often while trying to live in a way God never speaks
of… This is a great “day’s” writing!
DAY 76
Do
We Not Have To Choose?
By myself I can do nothing. I judge only as I
hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but Him who sent
me. --John 5:30
We make the statements, "All Jesus ever did, He
never did. The Man who did everything did nothing. We are to let Jesus work
through us as God worked through Jesus.” These statements prompt the question,
"Do we not have to choose?" So often we hear about choosing
correctly, about those Christians who refuse to do so, and about the issues of
choosing and free will. However, the point is not choosing but what we choose. Of course we must choose;
we choose to get up, go to work, eat, and so on. Again, the issue is what we
are choosing. Once we
establish the real point, we will come to a "Y" in the road. Go right
and we will make the choices God wants us to make. Go left and we will be on
the wrong road, where the emphasis is on choosing those things considered to be
good: choose to pray, read the Bible, witness, stop the deeds of the
flesh, and love an enemy. However,
this is not the choice God wants us making. If we think the decision
that we need to make is to lay down our sin, we are on the wrong track and can
be sidetracked for years. It
is easy to spot someone on the wrong road; he will say something like,
"I should pray more, give more, do more witnessing, love more, be a better
mate." This reveals a person that has made a wrong choice. So what is it God does want us
to choose? First,
choose to lose our kingdom, our glory, our pride, our righteousness, and our
strength. This is the opposite of choosing to do better; it is admitting
that we cannot do better. Second,
we will be ready to choose to accept His righteousness, kingdom, glory, and
strength. The third
choice is to allow His life to flow through us, and we will then be living in
dependence on the Son as He was with the Father. These three choices will produce and accomplish
everything that was desired on the left road, but without the self-effort that
leads to self-righteousness and the false sense that we are living “the good
Christian life.”
Yellow – VIP, Very Important Point Green
– IT, Incredible Truth
Red – GP, Greatest Promises
Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches Pink
– PV, Priceless Victory
It cannot be said enough…Life
as a Christian is coming to
the realization and recognition that “Christ is our life” as a Christian, and
all our efforts are not what God wants. Life as a Christian is when He lives His life
through us. The Christian life (man has determined that…in fact,
the two words never appear together in the Bible) is when we are trying to keep
a list of doing the “good” and not doing the “bad.” And we
simply have to choose which “life” we will live.
May we find more and more Christians on the road that leads to making
the choices God wants us to make.
Michael has given us three very simple choices we must make…how many
will make them?
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