In the book, The 7
Habits of Highly Effective People, the author Stephen R. Covey talks about
each person’s script and autobiography, and how what has transpired for us and
molded us in the past doesn’t have to continue to be our reality going forward.
Another author I recently read put it this way: the way we
were raised may provide reasons for how we are today, but
not excuses.
Covey’s book is all about how each person can choose to change and write a new script, and in fact, must
make that choice in order for a new script to replace the old.
For those of us who have accepted Christ, our new script is Christ. He is writing our
autobiography now. And to the extent that we cooperate with His process is the
extent to which we free ourselves from the insanity of trying to do things over
and over again the same way but expecting different results.
Christ’s script is to be my only script, and who I am in Him
to be my only autobiography.
This must become a discipline, empowered by His Holy Spirit
reminding me every second of every day until I no longer need to be reminded quite
as often because I am, without even thinking, living this new script. It has
become who I am in Christ and Christ in me.
copyright Barb Harwood
“God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with
his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.”
1 Corinthians 1:9
“but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks,
Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is
wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human
strength.
Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were
called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were
influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of
the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame
the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised
things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no
one may boast before him. It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus,
who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and
redemption.” 1 Corinthians 1:24-30
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