3.15.2004
If our view of ourselves is anything less than being a word spoken
forth by God, then our self-image is a self-constructed façade -- a
crust of self, a false self. This self finds itself required to hold
the world at arm's length and manipulate it through the use of
informational and functional dynamics in order to maintain the facade,
rather than be open and receptive to the shaping and transforming
presence of God who meets it in the world. ...
I have come to realize that the primary work of God's grace in our
lives is to liberate us from this destructive bondage to the crust of
self in order to shape us into wholeness. God seeks to create in us a
whole new structure of habits, attitudes, and perceptions; of dynamics
of personal and corporate relationships; of patterns of reaction and
response to the world.
This new structure is one of increasing Christlikeness. God is seeking
to break the crust.
M. Robert Mulholland Jr., SHAPED BY THE WORD
forth by God, then our self-image is a self-constructed façade -- a
crust of self, a false self. This self finds itself required to hold
the world at arm's length and manipulate it through the use of
informational and functional dynamics in order to maintain the facade,
rather than be open and receptive to the shaping and transforming
presence of God who meets it in the world. ...
I have come to realize that the primary work of God's grace in our
lives is to liberate us from this destructive bondage to the crust of
self in order to shape us into wholeness. God seeks to create in us a
whole new structure of habits, attitudes, and perceptions; of dynamics
of personal and corporate relationships; of patterns of reaction and
response to the world.
This new structure is one of increasing Christlikeness. God is seeking
to break the crust.
M. Robert Mulholland Jr., SHAPED BY THE WORD