The War Rages On...
So there is an ever present battle raging in the depths of my soul...and I am caught in the middle....but God is winning and I choose to know that today...
So I was pointed to Galations 5:16-26. I was asked to ponder on some fairly simply questions...yet so much depth when you don't glaze over them...The suggestion was to keep the verses handy and read whenever I remembered...asking God to open the eyes of my heart. Okay, easy enough I thought...
Yeah, so the next day I got on line and found every version of it and printed it out...put it in my picnic basket (aka-my purse) and took it with me everywhere...Yesterday I forgot after mass confusion clogging my whole being that had me preoccuppied most of the day.
Today being the "Teacher of the Year" that I am, I took the kids out for recess before lunch for almost an hour. (Come on, we are in the final 5 days of school!!) I wrote a couple of thank you notes and flipped open my bible...Psalm 143 jumped out at me. I didn't spend a gang load of time but I realized that it is GOD who comes to me...not about what I can do to get God to save me...It is letting Him do the work...I have no part in it except to cry out to Him...which leads me back to Galatians...I reread it again and nothing stood out in those 10 verses...So I read it AGAIN...and a verse jumped out...something I have heard over and over and over but never heard the truth like today...
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires.
Legalism is helpless in bringing this about; it only gets in the way. Among those who belong to Christ, everything connected with getting our own way and mindlessly responding to what everyone else calls necessities is killed off for good—crucified
Basically I gleened that it is okay if I mess up...I am going to...But God sees me whole...It is not a bunch of rules that will set me free...it is allowing the Holy Spirit lead me...not beating myself up every time I screw up...following a bunch of rules to make sure that "doesn't happen" only chains me to the wall...
So I was pointed to Galations 5:16-26. I was asked to ponder on some fairly simply questions...yet so much depth when you don't glaze over them...The suggestion was to keep the verses handy and read whenever I remembered...asking God to open the eyes of my heart. Okay, easy enough I thought...
Yeah, so the next day I got on line and found every version of it and printed it out...put it in my picnic basket (aka-my purse) and took it with me everywhere...Yesterday I forgot after mass confusion clogging my whole being that had me preoccuppied most of the day.
Today being the "Teacher of the Year" that I am, I took the kids out for recess before lunch for almost an hour. (Come on, we are in the final 5 days of school!!) I wrote a couple of thank you notes and flipped open my bible...Psalm 143 jumped out at me. I didn't spend a gang load of time but I realized that it is GOD who comes to me...not about what I can do to get God to save me...It is letting Him do the work...I have no part in it except to cry out to Him...which leads me back to Galatians...I reread it again and nothing stood out in those 10 verses...So I read it AGAIN...and a verse jumped out...something I have heard over and over and over but never heard the truth like today...
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires.
Legalism is helpless in bringing this about; it only gets in the way. Among those who belong to Christ, everything connected with getting our own way and mindlessly responding to what everyone else calls necessities is killed off for good—crucified
Basically I gleened that it is okay if I mess up...I am going to...But God sees me whole...It is not a bunch of rules that will set me free...it is allowing the Holy Spirit lead me...not beating myself up every time I screw up...following a bunch of rules to make sure that "doesn't happen" only chains me to the wall...
posted by Jolie @ 6:33 PM
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