day 1- inside out

Starting at the beginning, we realize we are designed to be in relationship with Jesus. The Christian life is not a set of rules and regulations. The Bible is not a rule book but a description of this way of life. We do not have a list of laws that we follow and then we become worthy of the attention of God. To grow in faith, we live the life we are designed to live and we are transformed from the inside out.

This is the key. From the inside out. We don’t get involved in a flurry of activities that make us acceptable to receive God’s love. We receive God’s love and are open to being changed from the inside out. We don’t do good things to please God. We become the kind of people who can do good things naturally because we are being transformed. It is out of the “becoming” that the “doing” follows.

Think of the things that you do “naturally” today, after you do them.