Romans 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Yesterday I quoted my favorite and most meaningful passage of the bible. During the study of this God revealed I had it wrong all these years. Was I to hold my opinion over God’s revelation or confess my limited ability and agree with God?

I yield my opinion to God. I did not regret my mistake for my opinion held sway over an immature mind and encouraged me to press on where I needed to be encouraged. In days past I would have taken this revelation as rejection, flogged myself for my stupidity, and taken a step backwards to try and identify where I had gone wrong.

Today, more mature, knowimg God better that I did in days gone past, I yield without complaint, without shame, without any sense of being wrong, and see that I am still able to grow in Christ.

The old man would have doubted himself and searched out every thought as to value and truth. I would have lost confidence in my very thoughts and doubted every action that I take. The new man, the more mature man yields to God for allowing my error to work good to a mind that was not yet ready to hear a better truth.

Praise be to God that His promise of conformance is now witnessed in my mind, being not only able but willing to let go of what I think and believe in favor of truth. Acceptance of this began with an awareness of the fruit of the spirit. One can see the fruit of the spirit, yet like any fruit, it matures with time.

Young fruit is small, hard, faint in color, and not ready to yield a seed of its own.

I yielded.

Psalm 17:15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

Have you run the experiment and discovered faith that saves? Do you have your evidence? Have you collected your substance? Are you satisfied? Do you think you have met the criteria pf Psalm 17:15 and you are done with the experiment?

Romans 10:3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

Philippians 3:12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

The English language can be very confusing, translations in English do not always carry the original intent of the scriptures. Allow me to rephrase the opening psalm for more clarity/

Psalm 17:15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be DONE, when I awake, with thy likeness. Altered KJV

The Hebrew word for satisfied is saba` which means satiated, filled with what is described next, in this case Christ. In relationship with saba` allow me to relate this idea to Christ instructions.

Matthew 26:26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.

1 Corinthians 11:26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.

In this life we can never be filled enough to contain the fullness of Christ. When He says “when I awake” in Psalm 17:15, He is referring to waking up after the long sleep, when we are collected together in paradise.