Life is just so messy!
Oh, my heart aches.
The tears, the pain, the frustration.
The fall of man - it's always before me.
No matter where I go or what I do,
I hurt people and they hurt me!
I sin against them and they sin against me.
Living in this fallen world is one of the most difficult things about the Christian life.
Learning to live Christ-like ... oh the challenge!
I say things I shouldn't say and hurt the people I love the most.
I can relate to Paul, when he wrote in Romans ...
"Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure. For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? THANKS BE TO GOD THORUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin."
Oh how I hate this tension.
All I can do is pray that God by His grace and mercy will forgive me every time I mess up ... as well as the people whom I hurt around me.
And I continue to pray that I will be conformed more and more into the image of His Son ... so that I do what is right and not let evil have its way.
God help me!
The tears, the pain, the frustration.
The fall of man - it's always before me.
No matter where I go or what I do,
I hurt people and they hurt me!
I sin against them and they sin against me.
Living in this fallen world is one of the most difficult things about the Christian life.
Learning to live Christ-like ... oh the challenge!
I say things I shouldn't say and hurt the people I love the most.
I can relate to Paul, when he wrote in Romans ...
"Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure. For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? THANKS BE TO GOD THORUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin."
Oh how I hate this tension.
All I can do is pray that God by His grace and mercy will forgive me every time I mess up ... as well as the people whom I hurt around me.
And I continue to pray that I will be conformed more and more into the image of His Son ... so that I do what is right and not let evil have its way.
God help me!
posted by Lisa Stucky at 7:55 PM
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