The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9)
What I know:
When I feel closest to You; when my spirit is in sync with Yours - it is the most wonderful feeling in the world… When I am in a state of pure worship and Your love is just flowing through me, I want it to last forever!
What I don’t understand:
Why do I make decisions that take me away from this feeling of bliss? It’s like pushing the self-destruct button on a perfectly working machine.
Of course, I know I’m not the first or only person to deal with this miserable state of being. The great Apostle Paul writes about this struggle:
Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? (Romans 7:21b-24)
So what can we do with this dilemma? Nothing but call on our Lord!
Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! (Romans 7:25)
Whether we like it or not, this flesh remains with us for as long as we live on this earth. Until the day we can finally shed this flawed shell to be replaced with something better, we must daily fight against our flesh.
“If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.” (Luke 9:23)
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