This hit me like a ton of proverbial bricks this morning, my snowy morning as I luxuriated in a slow time with Romans 6. Listening to a few preachers and pastors, reading a few different editions (which honestly, always undoes me. I do-not-like that we have so many translations. I am as yet unsure what I want to "do" about it. But I see key words changed, and it snaps my breath back into my lungs. Another time we can chat about this one!)

But walking Holy.

The idea that I have had Catholic friends say to me that since I believe "I AM SAVED" I am no longer.... bound to do good, be good, try good, and do my best to walk Holy. Lazy Protestants.
And then I point to ME, and remind them it is I who they know, who is having the conversation with them. And I am not the exception. I personally do not know a single Christian, in my world... that is lazy in their faith. Perhaps I am again supra-naturally blessed.... every single one of my friends are convicted... from things this morning to things remembered from years back.

Anything BUT LAZY, we... we want to please Him.
We want to be as much Like Him as we can while still here.

Okay but I digress:

What got me today was the significant understanding that I am NOT FIGHTING my old self anymore, because of Wisdom Gained, after this morning.... That part of me DIED. Really, I believe she has DIED.
And so, rather than fight.... I have always had a temper... my family has temper... I just hate being wronged.... etc

INSTEAD

I "DO" Righteousness.
Wow.

I was rethinking this even with my landlady, and how....seemingly unnecessarily short and unfriendly she was to me after so long a good time as a client/roommate... how I wanted to RUN to forgive her. Not condescendingly, and not even verbally to her (which is a con game still I can play with myself when I want to do right but can't quite let it "GO".... remember the LYSOL photo I had to include)
Anyway - to actively BE KIND.  
To Actively BE FORGIVING.
To Actively BE LOVING.
To Actively BE a PEACEMAKER.

Run to righteousness is not Reforming my Old Man...Working on Me... but that run is purposefully Denying me instead, and Doing Active Righteousness.
Dropping the Old Story and JUST..... being kind. forgiving. Christ-like.

OH THIS PATHWAY... Leads from Glory to Glory.
This is the Path I want: This is the Person I can be: This can be my story.