Protective Custody (Hometown Heroes #1)

by Jennifer Vander Klipp

Who am I? Who are You making me to be?

If she was a child of God, shouldn’t her purpose be to grow more and more like a child of God? Develop childlike faith, trusting Him and becoming more like Him?

“Maybe that’s the difference. Maybe we try to change our behavior when we really need to change our thinking.”

She’d become complacent. She knew she was saved. She knew God loved her and that she was generally living a life that honored Him. But that passion, that sense of continually being renewed, that sense of clinging to Him every moment had been missing. That sense of awe of who He was making her to be.

Everything familiar was gone, and she had been forced to cling to Him.

I was just thinking. Paul often compares an athlete training to the Christian life. I’ve always known that but lately, it just seems that while my physical training has been completely shot, my spiritual training has been brutal. I’ve had to use spiritual muscles I didn’t know I had. Growing pains, I guess.” “There’s definitely a parallel there. Just like you can’t expect to run four miles when you don’t go more than ten steps out your door, neither can you expect to have instant spiritual maturity when you need it.”

You define your life.