Step Seven

Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings

Can any step be any more laughable than this?

God has already put away our shortcomings, in the body of His Son!

"He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea." (Micah 7: 19)

This prophecy is fulfilled in Christ's death on the Cross:

"When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost." (John 19: 30)

Paul explains further:

"Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;" (Hebrews 1: 3)

Jesus is Christ is all in all, and this same "all in all" gave up all for us, that  we might be made the righteousness of God in Christ (2 Corinthians 5: 21)

It is not humble, but ignorant and arrogant, to keep asking God to remove all or our sins! He has already done it!

Now, we have a new identity, a new standing in Christ (1 John 4: 17)

Our soul -- mind, will, and emotions still need to be transformed, which is done by the power of the Holy Spirit:

"But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." (2 Corinthians 3: 18)

The Spirit of the Lord is manifested to us in God's Word:

"It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. " (John 6: 63)

And we live from faith to faith:

"For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith." (Romans 1: 17)

We do not keep waiting for our sins and shortcomings to be removed, but we rest and receive His grace by faith!