After listening to a fellow Christian exhort the church one way or another from the Bible, I sometimes think to myself, "Yes, that is all well and good. Of course I want to live that way/be obedient to that command, but I've tried countless times before and just can't! How am I supposed to actually do that?"
While I believe the answer is none other than the typical Sunday School answer, "Jesus", more specifically it is found in the following verses:
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. (2 Corinthians 3:17-18, italics mine)
As John the Baptist understood and said about Jesus, "He must increase, but I must decrease" (John 3:30), so we must actively, daily seek His face, His glory, His ways, everything to do with Him. For more on this subject, check out John Piper's sermon Beholding God and Becoming Whole: Seeing and Savouring God as the Heart of Mental Health, which he spoke to the American Association of Christian Counselors a few years back.
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