The Search for Significance

Approval Addict 71
16. MATTHEW 26:28 - Why was Christ's
blood shed?
17. ACTS 13:39 - What does belief do?
18. ROMANS 3:23,24 - By what are we justified?
19. JOHN 10:27-29 - What do His sheep
have? Will they perish?
20. ROMANS 8:28-39 - Of what is Paul
convinced?
21. I PETER 1:3,4 - Of what is Peter convinced?
22. ROMANS 8:33 - Who shall accuse us?
23. ROMANS 8:15-17 - Describe the nature
of our relationship with God.
Because of reconciliation, we are completely
acceptable to God and accepted by God. As these
passages illustrate, we enjoy a full and complete
relationship with God, and in this relationship,
our value is not based on our performance.
However, we may question what this relationship
means as we attempt to apply it in our dayto-day
experience. Dozens of people have voiced
this same question to me. Let's analyze this issue:
When we are born again as spiritual beings in
right standing with God, we are not yet fully mature.
As new spiritual people, we find ourselves
still tilted towards the world's way of thinking.
Because we have been conditioned by the world's
perspective and values, we find it hard to break
away. Indeed, when Paul wrote the Christians at
Corinth, he called them "men of flesh" and "babes
in Christ" Though born of the Spirit and
equipped with all provisions in Christ, these individuals
had yet to develop into the complete, mature
believers God intended them to be (I
Corinthians 3:3,4).
Many of us are like the Christians at Corinth.
As young and inexperienced babes in Christ, we
still try to get our significance the world's way:
through success and approval. Often, we look only