Read Heb. 11:8.
Like Abraham, change will not happen overnight. Like Abraham, there will be times when you wonder if change will ever occur. Like Abraham, you may attempt to change by your own power and ingenuity, and like Abraham these attempts will be rejected and fail.
Like Abraham, you will find yourself more and more deeply convinced of your own ability to accomplish God’s will, and that God will have to empower you and come through if his will is going to be accomplished. In other words, you will have to depend on God’s wisdom and power rather than on your own. What does this look like?
It will involve regularly praying for God’s resources. Not in some formalistic way, but personally calling out to him because you know unless he comes through you cannot change or fulfill his will.
It will involve patiently persevering in spite of no immediate change. You will have to wrestle with contradictory thoughts and feelings, say choose instead to keep to your course, trusting that God know what he is doing and will bear the fruit at the proper time.
It involves actively doing God’s will, but relaxing in the confidence that God will have his way. God grants us his peace that we are on the right course, and that he is going to come through. This is what the author of Hebrews elsewhere calls entering into God’s rest.
Like Abraham, over time you will see God gradually change your life and accomplish his purpose through you more and more (LANDMARKS; FEEDBACK). This brings increasing confidence that God is good and faithful, but the challenge continues for your whole life
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