{"id":5011,"date":"2020-11-18T09:21:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T13:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=5011"},"modified":"2020-11-27T08:15:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T12:15:20","slug":"we-are-not-made-strong-but-we-are-given-access-to-christs-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=5011","title":{"rendered":"We are not made strong, but we are given access to Christ&#8217;s strength"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Christification<br>Abide in Me<br>Our life is <strong>not<\/strong> a transubstantiation<br>The glory of God is a man fully alive<br>If any man be in Christ, <strong>he<\/strong> is a new creation<br>The gospel must be transformative<br>Alien righteousness<br>We are made righteous&#8211;made strong&#8211;but imperceptible<br>If we look at our progress, we are at once too self-absorbed<br>We look away to Christ, but <strong>we<\/strong> look<br>We do not lose our identity<br>We are not made strong, we are crucified&#8230;<br>   but that we may strengthened with might through his Spirit in the inner man<br>And, apart from your grace, there is no health in us&#8230;<br>Lost in wonder, love and praise<br>The Lord will give strength to His people&#8230;<br>The LORD is my strength<br>Shine out of my life, Lord Jesus<br>Strong, but not independent of Him. But strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.<br>Open our lips <em>and<\/em> our mouth shall proclaim your praise<br>I need Jesus; the need I gladly own<br>My strength I will ascribe unto You. Ps 59:9 Made strong, but not so we can boast about it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ChristificationAbide in MeOur life is not a transubstantiationThe glory of God is a man fully aliveIf any man be in Christ, he is a new creationThe gospel must be transformativeAlien righteousnessWe are made righteous&#8211;made strong&#8211;but imperceptibleIf we look at our progress, we are at once too self-absorbedWe look away to Christ, but we lookWe do &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=5011\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We are not made strong, but we are given access to Christ&#8217;s strength&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5011"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5029,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions\/5029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}