Today is another day of awakening.  It is amazing to see how living your life knowing you are a new creation changes me inside in how I see myself.  It all ties back to the struggle of loving myself as I talked about last week.  As God was pointing this out and I was asking Him what this looked like, He has begun to show me in “living each day” ways.  Before I step into this I want to tell one other moment from this morning’s devotional time.  In II Corinthians 7-9 Paul is telling the people of Corinth to love and support one another and defines how this would work.  In the book I’m processing through–The Nature of Freedom, it tells how God sees us after we have given our hearts to Jesus.  He no longer sees our sin nature, He sees sin habits that He will work with us to overcome as we become more attuned to living and responding to Christ in our heart and The Holy Spirit dwelling within.

OK, I needed to tell this piece so I could go on with how God has been pointing out to me the day to day living in this new nature of love just like Paul was doing with the people of Corinth.  Love has always been something “to do” for me.  So, yesterday I went to my daughter’s home to replace her car battery.  I went there and removed the old one taking it to the store and purchased the new one.  I got back and installed it and got the car running.  I shoveled show and we drove the car into the garage. Task done–love shown (old thinking).  I told my daughter to be cautious about going anyplace because even though she could now, the roads were still treacherous and her car is not four-wheel.  I came on home.  As I was leaving she thanked me and told me she loved me.  I said the same.

This morning God was showing me how He wants me to be relaxed about doing loving acts.  When acts are done in Godly love, God is seen.  If I’m uptight as I would have been any other time doing some mechanical thing I would have certainly shown the uptight Earnie.  God not only sees me as Christ in me, but when I go in His Love, others see this too.  This is the Earnie God is wanting me to know and be.  I’m sure I should have known this but somehow God is bringing out what the day to day living His love is like.  Just accepting myself for who I am is big. Then, taking myself to do what had been uncomfortable like mechanical things and not being uptight is remarkable.  I haven’t done this until now.

Today, I thank God for showing me these steps of revelation into what living in Him is like.  I am a new creation and I am learning what living in this new body is like.  Praise be to God!