In particular, when people believed the message, they discovered a strange new energy inside themselves -- a warm, disturbing, personal presence which enabled them to do new things, which put new ideas into their heads, which motivated and energized them to become different people from the inside out.... from the inside out...
--- NT Wright, Hebrews for Everyone (emphasis mine)
The way God works... what He cares most about... the inside...
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. ..." ---Jesus
Matthew 23:27-28
ESV
Inside... we find motive...Inside... where we wrestle with God... the Spirit...
Inside... where transformation begins...
I wonder... what am I to look for... in others... in myself...?
Dear Lord... help me to remember...
You work from the inside out...
help me to remember what I see on the outside...
is not necessarily what's on the inside...
Help me to pay attention to the inside... more than the outside...
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