resident alien day 8...auto pilot faith and salvation

I've gotten to that point, and I pray you have too that my lips part with the words "open my lips oh, Lord, and my mouth shall proclaim your praise"

I have developed the routine when my feet do not hit the floor until I ask God to; 

1)create in me a clean heart

2)fill me with his Holy Spirit

3)  restore the joy of the day I understood I had been transferred from death to life for all of eternity. 

My first thought as I enter in a state of semiconscious is "thank you" for the breath in lungs...

This has happened because I have put effort into my participation with the work of God in my life. 

Can anyone say this is bad? You cannot! This is happening without me being able to stop it. 

I have entered the zone of the resident alien. 

Of course during the day I still have to obey the rules of my homeland and this is not easy. The rules and the perks of this place seem pretty good. We are not tempted with things we don't crave. That is the basic idea behind a temptation. 

So we train, and train, and train. And fill, and fill, and fill. And thank God for doing what we could not do ourselves, obtain our salvation apart from Christ. 

Auto pilot faith  is not the evil thing this Post-Reformation world makes it out to be! It helps us focus when the world tempts us with dual-citizenship. It helps keep our eyes on the nationality line of our true passport. 

They saw it way off in the distance, waved their greeting, and accepted the fact that they were transients in this world. People who live this way make it plain that they are looking for their true home. If they were homesick for the old country, they could have gone back any time they wanted. 

But they were after a far better country than that—heaven country. 

You can see why God is so proud of them, and has a City waiting for them.