Here below is my green (thanks Fional, et al.)
| You Are Teal Green |
 You are a one of a kind, original person. There’s no one even close to being like you. |
All very interesting, but I prefer mauve 
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[15 years and still going strong!]
At the moment I’m trying some scripture memorising and this week one of my verses is Galatians 2:20. It includes the line, “I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.” How far does this go, I wonder? I remember years ago someone pointing out an apparent difficulty in the chorus ‘Abba, Father’. Its lyric goes like this:
Abba, Father, let me be yours and yours alone,
May my will forever be evermore your own.
The person was asking in what sense can it still be my will if it is God’s own? My guess is that the writer wanted to be so submitted to the Spirit of God that he would be always listenening to that Spirit and would offer each life choice, each thought and each action to God for His scrutiny. However, assuming that is what was meant, is that what Paul meant in Galatians. We have a great capacity for self-deception. When I read John Ortburg’s God is Closer than You Think and saw how it is possible to pretend God isn’t there just so we can feel we are getting away with something it rang a bell in me. Similarly, this week, reading Brennan Manning’s The Importance of Being Foolish the following also rang true
[Citing Romans 8:5-8] “The carnal man is blatantly in the flesh and lives and walks according to the flesh. Yet many Christians practice an ambivalent “prudence of the flesh” that seeks a sort of gilded mediocrity: the self is carefully distributed between flesh and spirit, with a watchful eye on both…It is the vision of those who have received the Spirit but remain spiritual infants because they do not subject themselves fully to the domination of the Spirit; they yield to their passions, thus letting their drives confine them to an infantile spirituality.”
Ouch! Hands up and guilty to that one. My other half and I agree this is work in progress in us both. But praise God, it IS work IN PROGRESS. And we live by faith in the Son of God, who loved us and gave himself for us. (Gal.2:20 again)
