We are born with a default setting that puts self number one. According to the Collins English Dictionary*, a default setting is “a preset selection of an option offered by a system, which will always be followed except when explicitly altered.”
We want to survive and thrive—all good. But we want to do it on our own terms. Just look at a two-year-old. It’s all about “myself to do it.”
God has a better way through the Lord Jesus Christ. As believers, this is not new information. We choose to undergo divine alteration through God’s grace and mercy.
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come,” 2 Corinthians 5:17
But when the road grows rough, do our actions return to the default setting? Myself to do it? Remember the Apostle Paul’s words.
“I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me,” Galatians 2:20
Thriving with Divine Alterations, PJ
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*Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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