The Revolution

Here's that Manning devo I mentioned earlier:

If there is any priority in the personal or professional life of a Christian more important than the Lordship of Jesus Christ, he disqualifies himself as a witness to the gospel and from membership in the gentle revolution. Since the day that Jesus burst the bonds of death, and the messianic era erupted into history, there is a new agenda, a unique set of priorities and a revoluionary hierarchy of values for the believer. The Carpenter did not simply refine Platonic or Aristotelian ethics, he did not merely reorder Old Testament spirituality, he did not simply renovate the old creation. He brought a revolution. We must renounce all that we posess, not just most of it (Luke 14.33); we must give up our old way of life, not merely correct some slight aberrations in it (Eph 4.22); we are to be an altogether new creation, not simply a refurbished version of it (Gal 6.15); we are to be transformed from one glory to another, even into the very image of the Lord - transparent (2 Cor 3.18); our minds are to be renewed by a spiritual revolution (Eph 4.23).