Newspring Family Church

The Good Sheppard

Weekly Devotional

August 30, 2010

God leads us in a way that He has designed as right for each one of us.

The more we grow in Christ, the more our true self, the one He designed us to be, will appear.  Because we are all uniquely made different (yet equally important), the path we travel with God will be different from those around us.  Yet in His wisdom and love, He enables us to follow this one of a kind path while staying close to Him.  In fact the more completely we devote ourselves to God the more freely that person He intends us to be will appear.

II Corinthians 5:17 (NKJ) Therefore if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation, old things have passed away behold all things have become new.

Ephesians 2:10 (NKJ)  For we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works , which God prepared before hand that we should walk in Him.

John 15:4 (NKJ)  Abide in Me and I in you.  As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself  unless it aides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in Me.

We are all a work in progress.  God hasn’t completed His work in any of us. We often judge by the outward appearance instead of looking at the person as God’s masterpiece.  God didn’t make a mistake in you.  The real you is the one that is interwoven with God’s presence.  He reveals the true beauty of the heart that shines through to the outside; that new creation in Christ that only He can develop.  Enjoy the adventure of finding the real you through losing yourself in Him.