when i was living in sin- after a while - it was very clear to me that i literally felt like who i was in Christ was being suppressed. i had experienced what i believed God had created me to be... joyful, carefree person who was really happy. i was extremely unhappy in sin and i remember days when i would look in the mirror and say i am not happy at all...i can't even smile. there was no joy in my heart. my mind was not free... i had become a jealous, and angry person. it was not fun, at all. as soon as i walked the path of sin i felt myself turn into someone else inside. eww. 2.tim 2:20-26 talks about being taken captive to do the will of the devil. kinda scary.
Romans 8 says that the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace. that is the most true statement i know of when it comes to you being the person Christ has made you to be. your mind is full of life and peace. you can think very clearly and calmly. all this was taken away and my mind was cloudy and never at peace. there is no peace for the wicked. you think of talking to people and you just can't. you have nothing to give and it's because the enemy has used your sin to suck the life of Christ out of you. without Jesus Christ you cannot do anything - john 15. it is so true. (and you're responsible for your sin...i don't want it to sound like when i refer to the enemy that i'm blamming him. i am only saying that he will use your sin against you and he will gain authority in your life if you let him)
I was thanking God just today for the fact that i can think about things that are pure, right, things that are true. there is happiness and peace in my mind and heart. that i can just be myself...Gal 2:20
when you give yourself to Christ He truely makes you the person He wants you to be. That person is Jesus expressing Himself through your body and heart - your actions and the way you treat people...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Micah 7
18 Who is a God like you,
who pardons sin and forgives the transgression
of the remnant of his inheritance?
You do not stay angry forever
but delight to show mercy.
19 You will again have compassion on us;
you will tread our sins underfoot
and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.
I had this picture in my head of a man standing about 10 feet from the edge of a cliff and about 100 feet down was a deep and dark sea. I saw the man holding a huge bag, maybe something like the bag santa clause would hold if he existed. the bag was full of my sins and the man took two running steps, to gain momentum, and then literally hurled the bag of my sin into the sea! and it fell and fell then crashed into the waves and was forever lost. wow! who can throw away sin like that? not me. there's someone who has compassion towards me in my lowest estate? praise God that He actually delights to show mercy, to me!!! when you are truly thankful to God for hurling your sins it's because His death actually means something to you. it means something to you because you know what your sin is in the presence of a holy and just God. you haven't minimized your sin and said, "well i haven't done what he did." sometimes we come to the place where we really have to fall hard to realize what sinners we definitely are. without God's grace, left alone, where would you be? i don't know all the sinful things i would've done, but what i do know of i cringe- but because of Christ i have joy instead of fear. joy because He is able to keep me from falling and to present me before His thrown holy, without blemish.
those verses mean the world to me
8 Do not gloat over me, my enemy!
Though I have fallen, I will rise.
Though I sit in darkness,
the LORD will be my light.
9 Because I have sinned against him,
I will bear the LORD's wrath,
until he pleads my case
and establishes my right.
He will bring me out into the light;
I will see his righteousness.
10 Then my enemy will see it
and will be covered with shame,
she who said to me,
"Where is the LORD your God?"
My eyes will see her downfall;
even now she will be trampled underfoot
like mire in the streets.
There's another section of verses in Deuteronomy 33 that talks about God fighting for His people. it's a great comfort knowing that God Himself is fighting for us- He is our Shield, our Helper, and our Glorious sword, even when we are in sin. it's a great joy to know He has dealt with my sin especially when i realize that i've fallen. even though i have fallen and the enemy didn't want me to rise, but God has been faithful to bring me out into the light! Praise God for setting me free - i don't have to live that way anymore! what a peace that passes understanding
who pardons sin and forgives the transgression
of the remnant of his inheritance?
You do not stay angry forever
but delight to show mercy.
19 You will again have compassion on us;
you will tread our sins underfoot
and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.
I had this picture in my head of a man standing about 10 feet from the edge of a cliff and about 100 feet down was a deep and dark sea. I saw the man holding a huge bag, maybe something like the bag santa clause would hold if he existed. the bag was full of my sins and the man took two running steps, to gain momentum, and then literally hurled the bag of my sin into the sea! and it fell and fell then crashed into the waves and was forever lost. wow! who can throw away sin like that? not me. there's someone who has compassion towards me in my lowest estate? praise God that He actually delights to show mercy, to me!!! when you are truly thankful to God for hurling your sins it's because His death actually means something to you. it means something to you because you know what your sin is in the presence of a holy and just God. you haven't minimized your sin and said, "well i haven't done what he did." sometimes we come to the place where we really have to fall hard to realize what sinners we definitely are. without God's grace, left alone, where would you be? i don't know all the sinful things i would've done, but what i do know of i cringe- but because of Christ i have joy instead of fear. joy because He is able to keep me from falling and to present me before His thrown holy, without blemish.
those verses mean the world to me
8 Do not gloat over me, my enemy!
Though I have fallen, I will rise.
Though I sit in darkness,
the LORD will be my light.
9 Because I have sinned against him,
I will bear the LORD's wrath,
until he pleads my case
and establishes my right.
He will bring me out into the light;
I will see his righteousness.
10 Then my enemy will see it
and will be covered with shame,
she who said to me,
"Where is the LORD your God?"
My eyes will see her downfall;
even now she will be trampled underfoot
like mire in the streets.
There's another section of verses in Deuteronomy 33 that talks about God fighting for His people. it's a great comfort knowing that God Himself is fighting for us- He is our Shield, our Helper, and our Glorious sword, even when we are in sin. it's a great joy to know He has dealt with my sin especially when i realize that i've fallen. even though i have fallen and the enemy didn't want me to rise, but God has been faithful to bring me out into the light! Praise God for setting me free - i don't have to live that way anymore! what a peace that passes understanding
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