- Nov 1, 2015
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I woke this morning in a bad way. It was one of those times when my spiritual malaise randomly flared up for no apparent reason and with no obvious provocation. I was feeling pretty depressed, and covetousness was overwhelming my thoughts. I was sorely feeling inadequate with myself, and with literally everything else I could think of.
This certainly was not the first time I had to deal with such thoughts and I had learned to not allow such feelings to control my thoughts and heart. And so I had prayed for help and read an article by John Newton on covetousness. This was very helpful to right my mind for the most part. Then, at church, a brother preached on the sovereignty of God and that was just the thing to, not only obliterate the evil disposition of my thoughts, but to enable me to accept and even to embrace the very things that had brought me so low earlier this morning.
As a result of the ministry of God's Word today, He has poignantly reminded me that my sin this morning was not random, but intended by our God which rules and reigns over His creation, to show me the absolute sufficiency of His grace to conquer the sins of His people and to conform us into the image of His holy Son. Soli Deo Gloria!
Here is the link to that article for any who might be interested:
John Newtons Letters
This certainly was not the first time I had to deal with such thoughts and I had learned to not allow such feelings to control my thoughts and heart. And so I had prayed for help and read an article by John Newton on covetousness. This was very helpful to right my mind for the most part. Then, at church, a brother preached on the sovereignty of God and that was just the thing to, not only obliterate the evil disposition of my thoughts, but to enable me to accept and even to embrace the very things that had brought me so low earlier this morning.
As a result of the ministry of God's Word today, He has poignantly reminded me that my sin this morning was not random, but intended by our God which rules and reigns over His creation, to show me the absolute sufficiency of His grace to conquer the sins of His people and to conform us into the image of His holy Son. Soli Deo Gloria!
Here is the link to that article for any who might be interested:
John Newtons Letters
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