For since we have become one with him in dying as he did, in the same way we shall be one with him by being raised to life as he was. -Romans 6:5 (GNT)
When I first starting getting serious about changing in a twelve step fellowship I belong to, I read that it had to begin with the destruction of the awful self-centered nature that was the root of my trouble and causing me the most grief. That part of me (the human 'flesh nature') had to go. Running the show, thinking of myself as the center of the universe-- it all had to cease being my mode of operating. I had to die in my Higher Power, Jesus, and be raised to life in Him afterward. Every time I confess my sin and repent of it, I die once again to the "self of the flesh" and rise in Christ to seize the day, be glad in it and serve Him with joy.
When I first starting getting serious about changing in a twelve step fellowship I belong to, I read that it had to begin with the destruction of the awful self-centered nature that was the root of my trouble and causing me the most grief. That part of me (the human 'flesh nature') had to go. Running the show, thinking of myself as the center of the universe-- it all had to cease being my mode of operating. I had to die in my Higher Power, Jesus, and be raised to life in Him afterward. Every time I confess my sin and repent of it, I die once again to the "self of the flesh" and rise in Christ to seize the day, be glad in it and serve Him with joy.
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