“I’m still not right.”

“I still haven’t mastered this yet, spiritually.”

“I still have room to grow in this area, before I step out into that.”

“I still don’t do this like Jesus.”

What does this lie from the enemy cause?

It centers your attention on yourself, so subtly.

You may be off the hamster wheel of working for righteousness, but you stepped onto a different hamster wheel, of trying to ‘represent holiness.’

Holiness is an automatic, progressive by product of a love life with Christ.

It grows on the outside for others to see only as the inside of your heart has been exploded and wrecked by God’s perfect love.

So when I am trying to “be right”— getting all the bad roots out on my own before I talk to anyone about Jesus, I am trying to do God’s work while not doing mine, which is to just be loved.

Can we reach a pure life of holiness on this side of heaven?

Jesus did only, so no.

God does it, as we love and are loved by Him.

Do any ministers have it all together? No.

So the devil gets you think that you’re not right enough to write anymore.

You’re not fixed enough to write that book, write the song, preach the word, share the post, write the blog, speak His love.

You’re still too broken to love others, so stop trying.

See this sublty? I didn’t for a time.

There I am, finding myself on the hamster wheel of trying to be perfect, going nowhere… and that’s exactly where Satan wants you— saying, doing, writing nothing.

If you’ve got some bad fruit, deal with it with the Holy Spirit, give Him access to uproot the depths of it once and for all.

But keep walking.

Stopping and waiting will bring confusion and you may find yourself on a path needing a re-route.

Keeping walking in His Spirit “not right,” and watch God clean it up, it will be effortless transformation on your part.

All because of Jesus.

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