Yesterday I said that God is teaching me how to stand before Him and man as a new creation.  As I was journaling this morning I saw how this was demonstrated yesterday by living through the day.  I was needing to confront an issue with our recovery ministries at church and I finished it.  I was wanting to do more with it but God told me this morning that I needed to now leave it with Him.  He is the one to be glorified in this work–not me.  If I were to take the issue any further it would bring the lens onto me rather than Him.  In so doing the grace of the work will be removed and it would be a battle of man.  This I surely don’t want.

Secondly, a dear friend was sharing that his son’s struggle is not turning around.  My friend knows he is to praise God even in the uncertainties of life trusting God and he was struggling to do this.  We prayed for God to complete the verse Mark 9:24:  “I believe, help thou my unbelief!”

As a new creation in God I am presently learning that God sees everything through His spiritual eyes, hears through spiritual ears, and more.  Each one of us humans do all of this through our fleshly eyes and ears.  If we don’t see and hear results we think nothing is taking place.  The characteristics of human growth are so different than spiritual growth.  Also, we humans can’t grow spiritual growth for someone else.  We can only support the growth.  Spiritual growth must come from personal efforts.  As a parent it is extremely hard to learn this once and for all as our kids grow into adulthood.  I for one know this full well.  God is teaching me that trusting, believing, surrendering are all spiritual verbs which we are to act on in human flesh.  This is part of praising God knowing He will complete the work He starts.  How I want to do this well as I grow more into the new creation God is making in me.