Where is the gaze of your soul this morning?
Christ is not weary. He is strong and waiting to ease your struggle.
"The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing by repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One. While he looks at Christ, the very things he has so long been trying to do will be getting done within him. It will be God working in him to will and to do."*
The journal continues...
I find myself measuring myself by my little improvements and excusing areas of weakness with 'at least I'm not as awful as I used to be.' I am starting to coast. If the goal is Christlikeness, then I should be measuring the heart of God to evaluate myself.
'And to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.' Ephesians 3:19
My heart needs God's help to grow everyday. I cannot live one day without Him.
My Dare:
To not expect or even aim for perfection in myself. 'Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect,' Paul says. Believers do not get to a point in life where there is no more need to pursue Christ. Today, I will throw away my desire for perfection in myself and will pursue Christ—follow hard after God—that His power—the same power that raised Christ from the dead that I am able to know and experience —will be seen in me. That those little watching eyes will see a big and mighty God.
Once we are aware of our imperfection—our humanity—it is easy to want to stay there in that dry, barren place in an effort to become a more "real" person, accepting of who we are. But, as believers, so much more...so much life...is available to us through Christ. He came into humanity that he might fill it with life...life eternal. Join me tomorrow as we go to the one place that will never leave us empty.
* A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
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