"This life therefore, is not Righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yeat what we shall be, but we are growing toward it; the process is not yet finished but it is going on. This is not the end of the road; all does not yet gleam in glory but all is being purified."
- Martin Luther

"The Spirit was the central promise of the new covenant: God would dwell with all his people intimately and equally. This is now our reality. In the Spirit of Jesus, God has made his home with us. This presence, this gift, lifts our humanity to a new order."
- Mark Strom


These two quotes have fed me this week. The quote by Luther reminds me that change in my life and change in the life of others will never be finished this side of Heaven. I have realized this week I often want myself and others to arrive at a particular point so I no longer have to struggle or bear the struggles of others. But, their is something, greater more powerful at work in me, the Spirit of the living God. The quote by Strom is awesome. It reminds me that if you belong to Jesus the Spirit makes his home with us and nothing, I mean nothing can destroy that relationship. God has staked his Son's life on it. Our marriage relationship to Jesus cannot be broken. In the words of Paul "For no one of us lives, and equally no one of us dies, for himself alone. If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. Whether therefore we live or die, we belong to the Lord."