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Just need to vent how about you?
Kat:
Hi loretta,
We are all right there with you. Paul wrote eloquently about that very thing of being trapped in this beastly "body of death" is how he put it.
Rom 7:24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
Before we were content being the beast, maybe we even embraced our beast before. But now we do not like it one bit, yet we continue to be aware of it. We have to learn that WE can not fight it and expect to win... And so what conclusion did Paul come to?
Rom 7:25 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.
So we have real hope from the Spirit of Jesus Christ working in us. We need to keep the right attitude and take one day at a time and God WILL give us victories.
1Cor 15:57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
v. 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
rick:
I cannot thank you all enough for your responses as I see I'm not going through something unique or foreign in my walk with God but rather what I'm experiencing is common to believers the world over.
I was beginning to think there is something wrong with me, you know I praise God, talk to God then five minutes later find myself sinning, I just don't get it or understand it. I been looking at this thing called pride lately and I'm seeing it as a most hurtful thing, I find pride is such a deception.
You know from early youth up I'm told to have pride in myself, pride in my accomplishments, pride pride, pride, well you know this world can keep its pride for with it I can not be real. pride is like makeup its just a deceptive mask to wear so no one really knows who I am.
I guess the only pride worth having is pride in God and God only. I'm so glad I did this thread because I learned so much from all of your responses I really have and its awesome to learn I'm no different no better than any other person on earth, there now maybe that's what God wants me to see.
Loretta I thank you for your reply and I love how you coined it when you said ( I worked hard at being a Christian, I had an image to project ) Lol, looks like we are going through the same thing sister but now I remember an old saying shame the devil tell the truth.
I am thankful to God for leading me to B.T. and I thank all of you for being here and for all your responses too.
Love and peace to all of you.
theophilus:
I have experienced the same inability and frustration. How are we to square our experience with 1 Peter 2:11-12
1 Peter 2:11-12; 15-16:
11 Dear friends, I urge you as aliens and temporary residents NOT TO GIVE IN TO THE DESIRES OF YOUR OLD NATURE, WHICH KEEP WARRING AGAINST YOU; 12 but to live such good lives among the pagans that even though they now speak against you as evil-doers, they will, as a result of seeing your good actions, give glory to God on the Day of his coming.
15 FOR IT IS GOD’S WILL that YOUR DOING GOOD should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people. 16 SUBMIT AS PEOPLE WHO ARE FREE, but not letting your freedom serve as an excuse for evil; rather, submit as God’s slaves.
We are not to give in to the desires of our OLD NATURE (we have now a new nature), we are not to let our freedom serve as an excuse for evil. I heard a self-appointed false Christ say that since ALL OUR SINS have been forgiven, we can do whatever our flesh pulls us to do. The sin is no more. In fact, he claims that Jesus has destroyed Satan, that he no longer EXISTS! I don't believe this of course.
Maybe the answer is in 1 Peter 2:1-2! : Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, of all deceit, hypocrisy and envy, and of all the ways there are of speaking against people; 2 AND BE LIKE NEWBORN BABIES, THIRSTY FOR THE PURE MILK OF THE WORD; SO THAT BY IT, YOU MAY GROW UP INTO DELIVERANCE. 3 For you have tasted that Adonai is good.
"Growing up into deliverance". Growing up is a process; it takes time and lots of mistakes. A newborn baby grows up under the care of a loving parent that looks after him, picks him up when the baby has fallen, that wipes his tears and soothes his wounds, and so on and so forth. Our Heavenly Father is doing the same with us, I'm sure. We have tasted Adonai, and we know that He is good (Psalm 34.9: Taste, and see that Adonai is good. How blessed are those who take refuge in him!)
Roger
santgem:
GOD CREATES AND USES EVIL FOR GOOD!
Rene:
--- Quote from: Rick on November 12, 2013, 08:41:55 PM ---
You know from early youth up I'm told to have pride in myself, pride in my accomplishments, pride pride, pride, well you know this world can keep its pride for with it I can not be real.
--- End quote ---
Yes, the world certainly promotes a prideful attitude, however, God's word teaches us to be humble.
Proverb 16:18 - "Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before stumbling."
James 4:10 - "Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you."
1Peter 5:6 - "Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time."
Jesus is the way! 8)
René
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