Becoming Godly is the desire and goal of every true disciple. No one who is truly saved would want less. If you are reading this and have little or no desire for a close walk with God, you should carefully think through if you have been saved. God's nature is imparted to His born again ones at conversion. It may not be obvious at the beginning but if it's there you'll soon notice. This nature of God starts expressing itself within us, causing us to want righteousness. It grows and becomes a desire. It grows some more and advances to a craving, to a burning desire. This intensifying comes when the spirit is nourished by the Word of God, the preaching and teaching of the Word and prayer. This is inevitable, if we have been regenerated. All of this is coupled with a loathing of sin. This loathing motivates us to seek holiness and victory over evil. Godliness doesn't come easily. It meets with much resistance. However, we have the resources to beat down the resistance. The Spirit of God, using the Word of God, gives us the ability to overcome. Nevertheless, we are to apply and obey the Scriptures to become a victor and not be a victim. God wants to ignite in our hearts a determination to settle for nothing less than an all out yielding to His will and ways. Godliness has begun when these longings are prompting us to seek Him with our whole hearts and we heed the prompting. Selah! In the next two or three articles we'll "flesh out," as He enables, the guidelines for a Godly and very satisfying life. Ron
"....exercise thyself rather unto godliness. For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." (From I Timothy 4:7-8).
"Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and Godly, in this present world" (Titus 2:12).
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