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What are your foreign gods?
prarrydog:
Wow! Amazing posts by all.
Bobby, I too believe that this thread should remain where it is. I also have many more things that am too ashamed to say right now.
Buddy, I also take comfort in knowing that God is working with me. Already many things He has put behind me, i.e. drinking, drugs, fighting (bars) and I am actually, for the first time in my life starting to care about other people. Feels good. Much more work to be done though.
Mongoose, your post reminded me of another foreign god of mine....little white lies when it is easier than telling the truth (some maybe not so little or white).
Thanks to all who have posted here. It has been a major blessing to me as to many others I'm sure. For those who want to post and haven't please do. I believe you will help yourself and the rest of us by putting these things in the open. As the body of Christ we should be transparent to each other.
Bobby, thanks for the scripture reminder:
James 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much
God be with us all
with love
Scott
jenny06:
You all have been an enormous blessing to me. I agree with prarrydog, we should be transparent. If not with brothers and sisters in Christ, who can we turn to? I too am a smoker. I have more confessions than I can count. I would have to put smoking on top with the fact that I can curse like a drunken sailor...as my father used to say. My kids have literally counted my words. Talk about humbling. It is not as if I try to curse. The words just slip in like extra conjunctions and adjectives. I make no excuse for myself. I have to remember to think before I speak and continue to think. I am guilty as the day is long with talking about others (with my husband). I am sometimes a moody person. I am selfish. I am a perfectionist. I struggle with this one most of all, daily. This is the one that has been hardest on my family life. I USED to resist leaving the house for a fun night out if I did not clean it first. Just to give you all some idea of the degree of perfectionism. I am a work in progress. :)
mongoose:
Wow. So many of us and so alike. How comforting is it to know we are not in this alone? I find this scripture astounding and so helpful when I am down on myself for the way that I am.
We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do----this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God---through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin. Romans 7:14-25
I am not a great Bible scholar or anything so feel free to correct me, but I think Paul wrote this letter to the Romans. It blows my mind away that someone like Paul, so attuned to the will of God and so knowledgeable could write such a thing. "What a wretched man I am!" An apostle actually wrote that....I cannot do the good I want to do but do the evil I do not want to do. This makes me again have hope that someday God really will complete the work He has begun in each of us.
all4love:
ok here I go, MAN this is REALLY hard. See it's easier to not talk about it cause then you can pretend it isn't there.
I have lied, not to keep from hurting someone but to save my own skin and to get out of having to go to work for a day. I have a really bad habit of gosiping. I too smoke, I am sometimes glutonous, I sometimes do not submit to my husband, I am very opinionated and have no problems voicing my opinion. I am sometimes slothful. I sometimes swear, although I am getting alot better at not swearing. I have a real hard time with loving my enemy and to be honest I also sometimes have a hard time loving my neighbor as well. I do the whole self-pity thing. I am lacking in patience. I will admit it I am jealous of my husband, you see he is a thin man and can eat anything he wants and I am a very big girl. I have a tendency to judge others. ( I try to remind myself daily about the passage that says "Judge not lest ye be Judged").
prarrydog:
Hi all4love,
It is very hard to admit these things. I am so glad that I started this thread however because it really put one thing in perspective for me. Nobody here is better than me and I am no better than anyone else. We are all in the same boat. We fight with the flesh......and we lose.....over and over and over again. I just cannot put into words how much I appreciate everyone's honesty. This is amazing. When I first started this thread I was very nervous. I figured a few might write in and say "Ya we'll pray for you prarrydog" and then I would be totally exposed to all my "perfect" brothers and sisters. I truly did not expect this kind of honesty. Thank you all for not hanging me out to dry ;D.
with love
Scott
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