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LIVING IN AUTHENTICITY
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the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great
work in you would keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish.”
Arriving at this flourishing finish isn’t a passive thing. God is
doing this great work in us, and He has promised to keep at it. But
will we keep at it too? Will we learn to appreciate the work in progress, to listen to how He is calling us to grow, to pursue Him in the
midst of the in-between? We are all becoming more like Him, and
we have the privilege of joining Him in that work.
5. Flip over to Psalm 37:4 and write it down:
6. What do you think this verse means?
King David penned these words as part of a song in his later years,
when he could look back and see the significance of the Lord’s hand
through every moment of his life. So we shouldn’t read these words
flippantly. God is not Santa Claus, who gives us things as long as we
ask and we’ve been good little girls. This verse isn’t saying that we can
have anything we want as long as we ask.
But what David is saying is that when we delight ourselves in
the Lord and spend time with Him through His Word and prayer,
something begins to shift. The position of our heart starts to line up
with God’s. His desires become our desires. We long for the things
He longs for.
As Paul prays for his friends—even while he sits in prison—he
can hang on to joy because he delights in the Lord. He’s doing the
opposite of complaining in these verses because he’s fully aligned
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