i've been thinking a lot about my own life lately. particularly, since i've become a bit more diligent about reading the Bible, following pastors, indulging in prayer and writing this blog. i've become critical of myself because i'm spreading His Word, yet struggling with sin in my own life. i feel like an uneducated pharisee. a hypocrite. how can i share His unending love, His unconditional grace and mercy; and still sin so much!
but i have hope. see, as much as i sin, the more i read and pray and spread His Word, the more i'm being pulled away from my sin. and this is true for everybody! the more God becomes a part of who we are and we let Him into our hearts, the devil's grip on our lives is loosened and broken. i sort of see it like a movie, where the devil is hanging onto a building edge and i am standing over him, stepping on one finger at a time, forcing him to lose grip of the building he is hanging onto. but this is a very slow process and the hope is that the last finger i step on will come at the end of this life, as i enter into the kingdom of God. and the devil will fall, never to be near me again.
as believers in Christ, we are called to be in the world, but not of the world (a very good friend of mine told me this over some awesome carne asada tacos recently). it is a struggle for us (believers), because the devil's temptation is constantly around us. we see it on the tv, in music, in our friends, in advertisements, in strangers, everywhere! but i urge you, all of us, to continue to dive more and more into His Word, so that we may shove the devil out of this world and our lives bit by bit by bit. and as we do this, more and more people will see how awesome our lives can be with God in it...think of it like a pyramid scheme. it started with one man (Jesus), spread to thousands, who taught thousands, who taught thousands, and in 2000 years Christ has reached nearly every corner of this globe because people spread His Word.
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