Found: A 2nd Key To A New Me!

Who would buy a safe, fill it with their treasures and documents and leave it unlocked?  It happened because of  memory lapse of where they put the key. Much later the key was found inside the safe, right on the top of  the documents!

Like this lost safe key, the key to a new day for a new me is inside me..... right now!  I can CHOOSE to take the key and unlock my God-given possibilities. "I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me -- I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him who infuses inner strength into me {that is, I am self-sufficient in Christ's sufficiency."  Philippians 4:13 (Amplified Bible)  So.... I must choose!

As I contend for the faith, I will face troubles, pressures, and trials. Can I really do everything? The power I receive in union with Christ is sufficient to do His will and to face the challenges that arise from my commitment to doing it....... not to accomplish anything I imagine without regard to His interest.

"Dwell in me and  I will dwell in you --- live in me and I will live in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit of itself without abiding in (virtually united to) the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you abide in me. I am the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches, whoever  lives in me and I in him bears much abundant fruit. However, apart from Me (Cut off from vital union with me)  you can do nothing." (Jesus, in John15: 4-5)

So .... once again, the key to a new me is inside me .... so once again I must choose. I will commit and unlock the power to open more of my God-given possibilities. I will also continue on in  my pilgrimage to find how I can find "New Days For a New Me." I hope you'll join me.

A New Day For A New Me

   I read some time ago about a Golden Budda that was hidden for a 1000 years  in  rough concrete. Then the concrete shell cracked and the inner splendor was discovered. I'm thinking there is a treasure within me to be discovered. But how can I release God's power?  Somehow I must crack the crust that keeps God's power locked up. All my rejections, my failures, my hurts, my loss, my fears tend to accumulate like incrustations around my inner spirit. I must crack the crust of these negatives and obey Colossians 2:6  " As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so live in him and be established in the faith." The kingdom of God is in you. . . but how do I do that?

    Today, Lord, chip away my fears and fill me with belief, strip away my hurts and sooth me deep within.
{Colossians 3:12-17} If I "cloth myself, as God's own  picked representative, . . . his chosen one ...  and I am purified and holy and well loved by God himself".  . . I have the courage to become the compassionate, kind, humble, gentle,  patient, merciful person God meant me to be. Then I can be the loving  and have the harmony I seek. Perhaps I have found a beginning to finding a new key each day of my pilgrimage being "A  New Day For a New Me."   .............  To be continued.......