Wow... just realized it has been almost two years since sharing anything here. Where did the time go? The busy-ness of everyday life grasps my thoughts and intentions... yet am I too busy to stop or at least, slow down to reflect upon what is happening around me, but more important, to what is happening within me? In all honesty, I have allowed too many outside influences to affect me... I've gotten bogged down with things and circumstances that have taken me far from where I should be or where I want to be. If there is a place of limbo, sometimes I think, I'm there and I do NOT like it and definitely do not want to remain there.
I think of how the Bible describes "... the serpent..." in Genesis 3:1, as "... more subtil (clever, crafty) than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made..." and I realize how satan used it in the deception of mankind, so I should be able to recognize that satan would use the same influences upon me. I'm not exempt of his tactics and trickery... neither is any other human being. I am so thankful for how the Apostle Paul explained his dilema in Romans 7:15-25, "For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not, but what I hate, that I do. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing; for to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man; But I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin."
As time moves on, I find this struggle to be even more prevalent in my life... diverting my purpose and distracting my attention from the things of eternal value. The questions I must ask myself are "what am I doing or what am I going to do about this in my life?" and "when?" The "how" is with GOD... I do not know how to perform what HIS plan for me is or will be, but I must yield... HE ALWAYS KNOW BEST!!! HE can and will do in, with, and through me to accomplish HIS will to HIS glory - if and/or when I allow HIM!!!
I think of how the Bible describes "... the serpent..." in Genesis 3:1, as "... more subtil (clever, crafty) than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made..." and I realize how satan used it in the deception of mankind, so I should be able to recognize that satan would use the same influences upon me. I'm not exempt of his tactics and trickery... neither is any other human being. I am so thankful for how the Apostle Paul explained his dilema in Romans 7:15-25, "For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not, but what I hate, that I do. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing; for to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man; But I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin."
As time moves on, I find this struggle to be even more prevalent in my life... diverting my purpose and distracting my attention from the things of eternal value. The questions I must ask myself are "what am I doing or what am I going to do about this in my life?" and "when?" The "how" is with GOD... I do not know how to perform what HIS plan for me is or will be, but I must yield... HE ALWAYS KNOW BEST!!! HE can and will do in, with, and through me to accomplish HIS will to HIS glory - if and/or when I allow HIM!!!
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