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I'm not without hope by any means.
rick:
So now I learned that we don’t have free will or choice how do I reconcile my memory and what I learned with my actions or choice?
It seems strange to me knowing God’s will is one thing but His intentions are another thing. So I know right from wrong, I want to always do what is right and although I’m ok in many areas of life I still find a flaw in one particular area in my life.
To give you, the reader a clue, I’m a man, you can probably figure out the rest. I tell myself the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak but what good does it do me? If I say to myself I want to change something in my life, I then realize I either come into Gods will or Gods intentions.
Ok, so maybe I can go against Gods will but His intentions I cannot go against. If Gods intentions are for me to choose choice A then choice B was never an option.
I have a certain weakness in my life, I agree with God I’m wrong in my weakness. If I pray to God to remove this weakness which I have more than once, however is it possible I’m praying against His intentions ?
Since I’ve been apart of B.T. and after reading the lake of fire series as well as multiple E -mails directed towards Ray not to mention many treads here on the forum I find within my understanding that the only change I see is my awareness of God ,blended with many awesome inspiring truths I’ve been blessed with.
The fact remains I’m still the same man in deed but a different man in knowledge , sometimes I just shake my head and say to myself, why, why do you do a thing you know is wrong? Why not choose choice B which is right rather than choice A which is wrong ?
Nowadays I understand and conclude I’m totally at Gods mercies, there is no strength in me that can afford me victories over my weakness. God, have mercy on me a sinner.
I find a nature within me I prefer not and what I do prefer seems to be unattainable. So I go on with life knowing God is good to me but I’m not good back to God, yet inwardly I know without any doubt God has not left me without HOPE.
maybe I’m not alone, maybe someone else can relate to my life, maybe someone else is living the same life I am, if so, you are not without HOPE either. :)
friendofJC:
Rick,
Thank you for the post. I struggle in my life with this sin. I don't let it have dominion over me. Ray says we will stop sins when we have more pleasure in not doing them. We will never be completely free from sin in the flesh however. Can't wait for what God has in store, spirit bodies with perfect health!
Jason
Abednego:
Romans 7:15-20
King James Version (KJV)
15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
18 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.
19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
That's me in a nutshell.
Kat:
Hi Rick,
Well you are where all of us are or have been with sin. God works things out in us by a process, it does seem a very slow process, but He accomplishes it in us in a way that makes us learn very well from the ordeal.
I believe where sin is concerned we have to not only come to a point where we don't want to do it anymore, but go on until we really despise it. If we come to abhor something enough, it might be only then that He will remove it from us. But never give up hoping and trying and praying to God to give you strength to overcome, because it is Him who will do it through us.
Php 2:12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;
v. 13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.
I think we also have to come to that place where we know we are too weak of ourselves to overcome and that it is only by Christ doing it in us that we can obtain any righteousness, realize of ourselves we can do nothing good. It is a process that takes time for God to develop these things in our mind. But God is not hindered by time, He does not need to get in a hurry, so He works it out through us carefully (painstakingly slow for us), so the lesson is never lost.
Here are a few emails of Ray's.
http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,4181.0.html ------
Primarily, we must repent of our "carnal minds" which HATE God (I realize that most people do not believe that they ever hated God, but by their disobedience, they prove that they did), which are at the root cause of all our other sins. We repent of not only what we have done wrong, but the reason why we did wrong in the first place. The human heart which is the seat of our emotions and morality or lack thereof, "is deceitful above all things and exceedingly WEAK--who can know it" (Jer. 17:9, Jewish Publication Society), Although all will be saved, not one will be saved until he repents of his sins, accepts Jesus Christ as the Saviour of his soul, and learns to live a godly life.
Ask God to grant to you repentance (Rom. 2:4).
God be with you,
Ray
http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,6018.0.html ------
"What do [you] need to do?" REPENT. How do you repent? Only God can bring you to repentance (Rom. 2:4); only God can drag you to Christ (John 6:44); only God can accomplish His achievement [workmanship] in you (Eph. 2:8-10). You must come to really hate your sins before you (through) God, will truly repent of your sins and stop doing them. You obviously are not there yet. Pray that God brings you to that place in your life.
God be with you,
Ray
acomplishedartis:
How can you chose the right choice B, if you are used to chose choice A?
Maybe you need to drag yourself to a great strong temptation that eventually makes you fall into choice B.
Maybe you need to just wish even more intensively and constant for choice B.
Both things always work otherwise (for choice A), don't you think?
How can one have so much knowledge and not the strength to put it in practice most of the time?
Well, but we have to start somewhere, that's why people go to college, I guess...
ps. I am not implying to be all clean up, I am just saying, for whatever is worth. Lately I can admire God's ways to remind me about humility. Actually 'humility' is one of the best reasons I can conclude as most worthy for all the trials.
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