RESET & REWIRE

 This blog sounds like it is a blog for electricians and I am going to explain how to rewire a music system. Electronic equipment and also appliances sometimes need to be reset when they are not working properly or a new update has been added to the computer and you have to either turn it off or unplug it and plug it back in or turn it back on depending on the system you are dealing with and what it requires. Other times you just hit the reset button and it takes the system back to the original beginning of its program. 

What I am talking about is doing a spiritual rewiring and reset. If you have an active faith life you will find that throughout your life your faith will hopefully mature and evolve. If it is stagnant then you will remain in an infantile stage of your faith. Christians were meant to grow or shall I say mature in the faith. 

1 Peter 2:2 Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation.

One of the reasons the Lord wants us to mature in the faith is so we do not get deceived by Satan and the world and our faith gets ruined, spoiled, or destroyed.

Ephesians 4:4 So that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

So this past year I have been studying the Reformation and the doctrines that came out of that time of protest against the Roman Catholic Church. I eventually had a connection with Martin Luther and John Calvin. 

So this is where the rewiring of my faith comes in. I have reset some of my thinking about the Christian faith. I had to rewire how I think about salvation in that God gave my faith to me through His merciful grace. I had nothing to offer for my salvation. Jesus paid it all for me. I used to believe I had to seek out my salvation from Jesus. I simply said yes to Jesus. So I would like to believe that my faith is still maturing. I am daily being transformed by the Holy Spirit. Our faith should grow until death.

In the Lutheran and Reformed tradition, the doctrine of salvation by grace alone through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone is the foundation of the rest of the Lutheran and Reformed doctrine. Martin Luther, John Calvin, and other Reformers came to understand justification as being completely the work of God and hence Luther said, "Faith is that which brings the Holy Spirit through the merits of Christ."  

Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

I am doing a lot of renewal of the mind and seeing this transformation in my thinking which is leading to a change in my heart. I feel more in the will of God than in my own will. Praise be to God for rewiring and resetting my theology.