<\/a>In Christian life, it\u2019s easy to be \u201croyalty on the outside\u201d while remaining inwardly unchanged. To quote one of my Scottish grandmother\u2019s expressions, we\u2019re pretty good at \u201cputting on the dog\u201d or dressing up like something we\u2019re not. It\u2019s easy to paste on a smile and adopt an attitude that makes people around us feel like we have it all together while on the inside there is turmoil or sin eating away at us. Coming to Jesus, fully, unconditionally, can restore God\u2019s original intention for us. Submitting to Him and allowing Jesus to fill every place in our lives not only cleanses us of sin but makes us fully useful as servants of God.<\/p>\nWhat the outside looks like isn\u2019t nearly as important as what is on the inside. We pray that God will fully transform us from rust and rot to something beautiful.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat counts is whether we have been transformed into a new<\/strong> creation<\/strong>.\u201d Galatians 6:15b NLT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once, while visiting in a hospital ward, I met a woman who had enjoyed an Atlantic ocean-crossing aboard the Queen Mary. She and her sister had enjoyed the luxurious surroundings and she shared quite a bit about that voyage. I was fascinated to hear firsthand about this ship that was an important piece of history […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[69,62,72,64,65,61,71,59,70,60,68,63,66,67],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7XNu6-24","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.attemptgreatthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.attemptgreatthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.attemptgreatthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.attemptgreatthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.attemptgreatthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.attemptgreatthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"http:\/\/www.attemptgreatthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.attemptgreatthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.attemptgreatthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.attemptgreatthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}