Change Is Possible

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

Desiring God, Jesus, Solid Joys, Joy, 163859, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Daily Devotional, Devotional, John Piper, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Don’t be a fatalist. Be a Christian. Change is possible. God is alive. Christ is risen. The promises are true.

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0:00.0	November 17. Change is possible. Put on the New Self, created after the likeness of God in true
0:11.2	righteousness and holiness, Ephesians 4.24. Christianity means change is possible.
0:20.7	Deep fundamental change. It is possible to become tender-hearted when once you are callous
0:28.8	and insensitive. It is possible to stop being dominated by bitterness and anger.
0:37.7	It is possible to become a loving person no matter what your background has been.
0:46.3	The Bible assumes that God is the decisive factor in making us what we should be.
0:54.1	With wonderful bluntness, the Bible says, put away all malice and be tender-hearted. Ephesians 4.31.32.
1:06.9	It does not say if you can or if your parents were tender-hearted or if you have not been terribly abused,
1:19.8	it says, be tender-hearted. This is wonderfully freeing. It frees us from the terrible fatalism
1:31.9	that says change is impossible for me. It frees me from the mechanistic views that make my background
1:41.1	my destiny. And God's commands always come with freeing, life-changing truth to believe, for example.
1:53.3	God adopted us as His children. We have a new father and a new family. This breaks the fatalistic
2:02.6	forces of our family of origin. Call no man your father on earth. For you have one father who is in
2:12.4	heaven, Matthew 239. God loves us as His children. We are loved children, Ephesians 5.1.
2:23.7	The command to imitate the love of God does not hang in the air. It comes with power. Be
2:30.1	imitators of God as loved children. Love is the command and being loved by God is the power.
2:42.8	God has forgiven us in Christ, be tender-hearted, and forgiving just as God in Christ forgave you
2:50.9	Ephesians 432. What God did in Christ is powerful. It makes change possible. The command to be tender-hearted
3:02.2	has more to do with what God did for you than what your mother or your father did to you.
3:10.0	This kind of command means you can change. Christ loved you and gave Himself up for you.
3:19.1	Walk in love as Christ loved you Ephesians 5.2. The command comes with life-changing truth. Christ
3:29.0	loved you. At the moment when there is a chance to love and some voice says you are not a loving
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