March 9, 2006

• Whew!!

  
  

  What an adventure!!

  
  

  God is an awesome God, and there is no doubt about that.  When His people fail, that is not His problem, it is ours.  When we fail, it is our choice, and not the fault or pressure of any circumstance that underlies our failure.  God promises to weigh each temptation to fail, and to only allow those which I might succeed at resisting.  He doesn't EVER allow temptations larger than my abilty to resist. 

  
  

  Thats a blessing, to be sure, but it's also a crushing blow.  On whom or what can I blame my failure?  No one or nothing.  That's it.  I'm to blame when my attitude sucks.  I'm to blame when my anger flares into sin.  I'm to blame when fear paralyzes me.  I'm to blame when worry keeps me awake at night, when I'm anxious for what may come tomorrow.

  
  

  To put it another way:  The fact that I'm a victim of sin (we all are) has no direct bearing on the fact that I am also a perpetrator of sin.  I can blame no one or nothing for my choice to live lower than God's standard in word, deed, attitude, thought.

  
  

  What a God who would forgive the horrifying pile of sin this blatently reveals in my life.  He demonstrates His love in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us, the godly for the ungodly.

  
  

  Whew!!!

  • 2:01 am
  • 5 Comments