We Have to Love Ourselves, as God Loves Us (TMF:462)

Tuesday, August 02, 2016
Peace to Live By: We Have to Love Ourselves, as God Loves Us (TMF:462) - Daniel Litton
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       Now, this doesn’t mean we should be narcissistic and obsessed with ourselves, but we should care. We should care about getting a daily dose of God’s Word and spending time in prayer with God. We should care that we are fellowshipping with other believers, loving on them as they love on us. If we aren’t doing these basic things in the Christian life, then there is something wrong. We have to take care of ourselves to be healthy in Christ and building up fellow members of the body. Fourth, we should live by ‘faith’ in God that we are doing right and doing the best we can. The Apostle Paul noted, “For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me” (Galatians 2:19, 20, ESV). As Paul just said, we are not to try to live under the [Jewish] Law, or any law system we have set up, anymore. We are to “live to God.” We are to rely on Jesus so much that he actually lives through us. We have to have faith that as long as we are trying our best, that God is pleased with our behavior. Like I stated before, we don’t earn God’s acceptance, but he still wants us to try the best we can.