"I would never make it as an actor: I have a hard enough time being myself!" ;-)
-- But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires. Romans 13:14
Posted by Eric Pyle at December 11, 2005 5:10 PM
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Passing Thoughts
Are you saying that if we deliberately choose to obey Christ at a given moment, instead of doing what we actually want to do, we are being disingenuous?
Posted by: Thainamu | December 12, 2005 4:49 PM
I am saying that obedience to Christ is like acting, though in our case, putting on Christ as our covenant-costume is actually more genuine than the adamic disguise we wear by natural birth. We have a natural tendency to want to wear clothes that reflects our own glory. In that respect, the Christian life is a fashion design competition for finding the clothes that best reflects His glory. That's never a *natural* thing to do or easy. No one has to command us to put on our old clothes. Our genuine appearance is solely by the work of our makeup artist; the perfections of our performance are His (1 Cor 15:10).
Posted by: Eric Pyle | December 17, 2005 11:36 PM