I just made a post regarding [b:45638b5182]DNA[/b:45638b5182] on the other blog
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So here are some deep thoughts by me
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I realized that by trusting in God I learn to allow him to mature me into what is already true about me, that I now have His DNA and not the DNA of some pastor or elder. In the old environment I never learn to trust God because the efficiency was what I was doing for the church or God. I was not encouraged to trust God with all my hurts habits and hang-ups. To trust him because….he is God…and I am not. I was being taught that more sacrifice would please God. Reflecting back the surrounding church environment was breeding this behavior, a works based performance driven devotion and existence.
Why do we have the propensity to see a guy that is got a good relationship with God and all of the sudden people are trying to look like act like be like that guy? Why is it so difficult for us to keep our eyes on Jesus and follow him, trusting him? I have done it! and yes I have done it here at Radiant Life Church and I know many who read this can admit that they have done it to. We somebody and they appear to have it all together. They might display some insight or have some mannerism that is so patient or loving so we try and hang out with them surround ourselves with their influence next thing you know your mimicking their gestures and there laugh. But this phenomenon this is not the transfer of DNA so do not buy into this heresy! DNA does not rub off from person to person.
When we invite Jesus into our life (or maybe I should say when he accepted us) that is when he changes our old nature into his new nature we are new creations! he changes our spiritual DNA!
God has given us an example of how this works in his creation. If you take a caterpillar to a scientist and ask what is this? They will run all the tests and DNA tests and come back to you with these results. The scientist will say "What you have here is the complete perfect DNA of a butterfly, It may not look like one yet but it has simply not matured into what al ready true about it, a butterfly". That's what we are, on the day we receive Christ and trust him is the day our DNA is changed. We receive the full measure of Christ. We mature by trusting Him. I realize that much of me has not matured yet, much in my life has not healed yet I can stand here knowing that even on my worst day it is Christ who robes me with his righteousness. Oh and this blessed assurance it girds up my feet so I can stand my ground. Knowing that I am just one of his children, my faith is strengthened. This is a message that needs to go out to all the hurting, dejected, abused, neglected people in and out of our body. We need to recognize what path we are on, what the room we are in, and we need to come over to the path of trusting God and to the room of grace. We need to extend the same grace that God extends to us to all the folks here in our body. On my worst day I am Christ in me, it is only through his righteousness I am made clean. I can only trust him to continue to be my hope and my salvation.
You see in the room of good intentions we strive to change into something that we aren't yet, Godly. In the room of grace, we grow up and mature into something that is already true about us Godly. The first room creates a work based performance driven relationship with God and puts the emphasis on the efficacy of my effort. The second room places the responsibility on resources of God. God isn't interested in changing you he already has, the DNA is set. God wants us to believe that he has already changed us, so that we can get on with maturing us into what he has already made us. And trust, opens the way for God to bring us into maturity, without trust we don't mature because we are trying to change to become Godly.
So in trusting God he changes my prospective out of the relationship I have with him. I start to mature into what is already true about me because he already has changed me.
So if My [b:45638b5182]Motive[/b:45638b5182] is Trusting God Then My [b:45638b5182]Value[/b:45638b5182] Will Be Living Out of Who God Says I Am, and My[b:45638b5182] Action [/b:45638b5182]will be Standing with God, with My Sin in Front of Us, Working on it Together. I am allowing God to remove my masks I am now trusting God. I am living out of who God says I am. God wants to see his reflection in our face the problem with our papier-mâché masks is they don't reflect.