Walk In The Same Footsteps
Now I am ready to visit you for the third time, and I
will not be a burden to you, because what I want is not your possessions but
you. After all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but
parents for their children. So I will very gladly spend for
you everything I have and expend myself as well. If I love you more, will you
love me less? Be that as it may, I have not been a
burden to you. Yet, crafty fellow that I am, I caught you by trickery!
Did I exploit you through any
of the men I sent to you? I urged Titus to go to you and I sent our brother with him.
Titus did not exploit you, did he? Did we not walk in the same footsteps by the
same Spirit?
Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending
ourselves to you? We have been speaking in the sight of God as those in Christ;
and everything we do, dear friends, is for your strengthening. For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want
you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may be
discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance and
disorder. I am afraid that when I come
again my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who
have sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual sin and
debauchery in which they have indulged.
2 Corinthians 12:14-21
When we become Christians, there is an exchange of
lives and lifestyles. We trade our old lives for a new one, and we spend a
different kind of “currency.” Instead of spending ourselves for the causes of
this world, we are able to start spending ourselves for the cause of Christ.
Conversion is far more than just changing our final
destination. It’s changing the way we spend each day of our lives.
Conversion takes only a moment – transformation takes
a lifetime.
Our Daily
Bread
–