19-21 "What
actually took place is this: I tried keeping rules and working my head
off to please God, and it didn’t work. So I quit being a “law man” so
that I could be God’s man. Christ’s life showed me how, and
enabled me to do it. I identified myself completely with him. Indeed, I
have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no
longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good
opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me.
The life you see me living is not “mine,” but it is lived by faith in
the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I am not going to
go back on that.
Is it
not clear to you that to go back to that old rule-keeping,
peer-pleasing religion would be an abandonment of everything personal
and free in my relationship with God? I refuse to do that, to repudiate
God’s grace. If a living relationship with God could come by
rule-keeping, then Christ died unnecessarily."
so good girl!
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God will use you if you let Him! I can't wait to see what He does in you!
Forever loving you!
Love you too Margie! Thank you for being wonderful and encouraging me!!
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