Beatitude #1- The Poor in Spirit, Part 4 (TMF:391)

Monday, April 25, 2016
Peace to Live By: Beatitude #1- The Poor in Spirit, Part 4 (TMF:391) - Daniel Litton
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       But just because we all need to grow—we all need to change our behaviors—doesn’t mean we have to let that feeling of being poor in spirit overtake us. God doesn’t want us to walk around joyless and without peace. Why, the fruits of the Spirit include both joy and peace. We will all make mistakes in life, both big and small, and we will always make mistakes to some degree. God doesn’t rid us of our human flesh when we become Christians, but rather is he waiting until we die or are Raptured in order to give us our new, resurrection bodies. Now, understanding we will always make mistakes as long as we live here on earth shouldn’t discourage us from being happy. Rather, we should be happy in this realization so that we will not worry that we are unusual or unspiritual when we do in fact make mistakes. We have to allow God to change us from the inside out, yielding to God the Holy Spirit as he convicts us of sin and works in us for our own good. And we must never give up at trying to do good, no matter how often we receive correction or find ourselves correcting ourselves.