The Beautiful Path

When you become a Christian you begin a great journey, which will culminate when you enter the glorified state to spend eternity with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. One day we will finally be like Him. Our sin, and selfishness, and struggles with the flesh will be gone forever. Hallelujah! But it is a journey, we do not get their overnight.

2 Corinthians 3:18 puts it this way:
But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

The Spirit is at work in our lives, conforming us to the image of Christ.

In the next several posts, I am going to discuss the path to spiritual maturity.

What does this path look like? The Psalms describe this path in a number of ways.
Psalm 16:11 calls it the path of life
Psalm 23:3 refers to paths of righteousness
Psalm 25:10 says, "All the paths of the Lord are lovingkindness and truth "
Psalm 27:11 calls it a level path

Sounds like a pretty good place to be! When we go the way God has designed for us to go, it truly is a beautiful path.

God is at work, leading us along His path, and we, like Paul, can be confident that the Lord will complete His work in us.

Philippians 1:6
For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.

Does that just mean we sit back and let the Spirit work? What part do we play in this great journey?

We'll look at that next time.