A final note about self-talk: When you think about what you tell yourself regarding life, circumstances, other people (especially annoying ones), trials, keep in mind the gospel. How does the gospel inform my thought patterns? How does the historical reality of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection alter what I might say to myself?
Because of the gospel, I am a new creature, body, mind and soul. There is the real possibility of and power to think new thoughts, thoughts that mirror Christ's amazing grace to me. I can be pure, I can love others, I can be strong in trials because of Christ's Spirit living in me. Second Corinthians 3:18 reminds me that "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." Amen and amen.
So today, behold the gospel, the Christ of the gospel, and be changed.
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