I was washing dishes the other day and God began speaking to my heart.\u00a0 I was getting\u00a0stressed as I thought about the things I needed to do that evening.\u00a0 One of them was to return something I borrowed.\u00a0 This was the dialogue in my mind: \u00a0<\/p>\n
“ME:\u00a0 I\u00a0have <\/strong>to return this tonight.\u00a0 I have to return this tonight to show him I am responsible and dependable.\u00a0 GOD (as I heard him in first person):\u00a0 I don’t have to show him anything.\u00a0 I don’t have to prove myself to him.\u00a0 If there’s anything I want to show him it’s Christ.\u00a0 How can I show him Christ if I’m striving to show him I<\/strong> am responsible and dependable?”\u00a0<\/p>\n Many times in my life I have thought about doing good in order to show people Christ, to be an example to others.\u00a0 I thought, “If I’m going to show people Christ then I must act like Christ”, so I strived to be like Christ.\u00a0 In this scenario, people weren’t really seeing Christ at all.\u00a0 They were seeing my flesh(my efforts)\u00a0trying to acheive my own righteousness.\u00a0 I had it all backwards.\u00a0 I don’t have to do<\/strong> anything.\u00a0 I don’t have to strive to be responsible or dependable.\u00a0 I just abide<\/strong> in Christ and let Him live\u00a0through me.\u00a0 That’s how Christ is seen!<\/p>\n Rebecca:-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was washing dishes the other day and God began speaking to my heart.\u00a0 I was getting\u00a0stressed as I thought about the things I needed to do that evening.\u00a0 One of them was to return something I borrowed.\u00a0 This was the dialogue in my mind: \u00a0 “ME:\u00a0 I\u00a0have to return this tonight.\u00a0 I have to return this tonight to show him I am responsible and dependable.\u00a0 GOD (as I heard him in first person):\u00a0 I don’t have to show him anything.\u00a0 I don’t have to prove myself to him.\u00a0 If there’s anything I want to show him it’s Christ.\u00a0 How can I show him Christ if I’m striving to show him I am responsible and dependable?”\u00a0 Many times in my life I have thought about doing good in order to show people Christ, to be an example to others.\u00a0 I thought, “If I’m going to show people Christ then I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}