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I am a husband and a father and I pray that I will continue to look more like Christ to my wife and children each day. I pray that all that I do will be used to give glory to the Father and Christ through the Holy Spirit.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Not For Your Sake

"Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came. And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes. I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land. I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.” Ezekiel 36:22-27 ESV

It is a beautiful thing that God does to His children. He cleansses us and gives us a new heart and new spirit so that we will follow Him and his rules. It is wonderful to know that He is the one that does this for us because we know that we can’t do it on our own. Find joy in this today. We just need to make sure that we remember why God chooses to do this. Look back at the first verse of the passage that I included above. “It is not for your sake…but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned.” God does not do these things ultimately for us. He does this to vindicate his holy name which we have profaned.

So before we start thinking we are hot stuff let us remember that it is God that has done this work in us and He has done it for his Glory. What are we to do now? Praise God in all that we do to show the nations that He is holy and that He is good.

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