God intends for us to live a well-rounded life in Christ Jesus, but
there are times when that life is attacked from the outside. Then we
tend to fall back into self-examination, a habit that we thought was
gone. Self-awareness is the first thing that will upset the completeness
of our life in God, and self-awareness continually produces a sense of
struggling and turmoil in our lives. Self-awareness is not sin, and it
can be produced by nervous emotions or by suddenly being dropped into a
totally new set of circumstances. Yet it is never God’s will that we
should be anything less than absolutely complete in Him. Anything that
disturbs our rest in Him must be rectified at once, and it is not
rectified by being ignored but only by coming to Jesus Christ. If we
will come to Him, asking Him to produce Christ-awareness in us, He will
always do it, until we fully learn to abide in Him.
Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your
life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it. Beware of
allowing the influence of your friends or your circumstances to divide
your life. This only serves to sap your strength and slow your spiritual
growth. Beware of anything that can split your oneness with Him,
causing you to see yourself as separate from Him. Nothing is as
important as staying right spiritually. And the only solution is a very
simple one— “Come to Me . . . .” The intellectual, moral, and spiritual
depth of our reality as a person is tested and measured by these words.
Yet in every detail of our lives where we are found not to be real, we
would rather dispute the findings than come to Jesus.
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