My day is tough right now. I woke up with a diabetic sugar level over 400. I got in too late last night woke up about 5 am. I'm catching a cold, and my mental and spiritual state is suffering right now.
Here's my take on a few issues I'm dealing with:
Faith is more than knowing the facts that say there is an invisible God who controls the universe. It's more than knowing Jesus died for me. And it's even more than knowing you need faith. It's having faith and faithing, or walking the faith. Faith is confidence in God, thru Jesus, that He will deliver what He promised to us as we trust and believe in the finished work of His Son. His promise is eternal life.
There needs to be heart knowledge as well as head knowledge, and your head and heart need to be in tune with each other to benefit the most.
That's where I struggle the most, is that my head and heart are fighting each other. My mind knows what needs to be done. But my heart still struggles with the passions of this life. And that's left over baggage from my old man. I can't change my own heart, God has to do that. I believe that as we obey with our will, and submit to Him even when we don't feel like it, we can find God changing our heart.
I'm having a really tough day today. I am desperately wigged out by the level of my own depravity. But I need to refocus. Everybody is in sin, and we need to refocus on Christ and what He has done. I have to continually preach the Good News of the gospel to myself. And I need to forgive myself.
Forgiving myself involves a couple of steps.
1. Noticing, by the prompting of the Holy Spirit, that we're hung up on ourselves and in need of self forgiving.
2. Being willing to forgive myself.
3. Communicating to myself the forgiveness.
#3 is kind of tricky for me. I'm kind of a person who is detached from myself, and communicating to me is like a conversation between two people. One person is the "me" who makes decisions willfully. Like deciding to forgive myself. The other is the hurt part of me that is thirsty for compassion.
Anyway, I hope the day gets better as it goes on.
Here's my take on a few issues I'm dealing with:
Faith is more than knowing the facts that say there is an invisible God who controls the universe. It's more than knowing Jesus died for me. And it's even more than knowing you need faith. It's having faith and faithing, or walking the faith. Faith is confidence in God, thru Jesus, that He will deliver what He promised to us as we trust and believe in the finished work of His Son. His promise is eternal life.
There needs to be heart knowledge as well as head knowledge, and your head and heart need to be in tune with each other to benefit the most.
That's where I struggle the most, is that my head and heart are fighting each other. My mind knows what needs to be done. But my heart still struggles with the passions of this life. And that's left over baggage from my old man. I can't change my own heart, God has to do that. I believe that as we obey with our will, and submit to Him even when we don't feel like it, we can find God changing our heart.
I'm having a really tough day today. I am desperately wigged out by the level of my own depravity. But I need to refocus. Everybody is in sin, and we need to refocus on Christ and what He has done. I have to continually preach the Good News of the gospel to myself. And I need to forgive myself.
Forgiving myself involves a couple of steps.
1. Noticing, by the prompting of the Holy Spirit, that we're hung up on ourselves and in need of self forgiving.
2. Being willing to forgive myself.
3. Communicating to myself the forgiveness.
#3 is kind of tricky for me. I'm kind of a person who is detached from myself, and communicating to me is like a conversation between two people. One person is the "me" who makes decisions willfully. Like deciding to forgive myself. The other is the hurt part of me that is thirsty for compassion.
Anyway, I hope the day gets better as it goes on.
