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The Beginning


            Self-acceptance is the beginning of growth (Gen 5:1 and Luke 19:10). In order to grow you have to understand who you are. You are created by God. We are all sinners. Some of us are lost and some of us are saved. To grow in Christ you must ask yourself: Am I saved or am I lost? For some of us that is going to be a tuff question.  Sometimes we are saved and we act lost. We have to find our place and start there. When we are immersed into Christ authority we are anew (Rm. 6:1-4). We may not feel like it, or think we are.  We have to embrace the fact we sin. Denying the sin in our lives only makes us liars (1 John 1:8). We when embrace the fact we sin and we have sin then we can start dealing with it (1 John 1:9) Sin is not the problem.  Sin is a result of something much deeper.  We sin because it’s how we choose to deal with something instead of letting God.  Sometimes we deem it easier to do it “my way” than His way.

     Take sometime today to ask yourself some important questions.  We need to ask and answer hard questions of ourselves to grow. Who am I? What do I struggle with? What makes me sin? Why do I choose to sin? What can I do to fix it? Am I living like a Christian? These are tougher than they look.  O I mean we can all give a superficial answer to each one. If that’s how you want to grow then I suppose that’s ok. God doesn’t want His children to grow superficially.  Do you want to mature or just appear mature in Christ?

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