Do you ever feel like you’re not a good person? Do your let your own selfishness get in your own way. You don’t know why you’re selfish; You don’t want to be.
Paul tells us in the NLT I Tim 1:15 “This is a trustworthy saying, and everyone should accept it: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”—and I am the worst of them all.” We don’t want to be a sinner; especially the worst sinner of them all, but sometimes we are. We have broken relationships that may be fractured forever. We may have taken special days and woven a terrible image into it - that may haunt us forever. Paul also tells us Romans 7:15-20 New International Version (NIV)15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[a] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 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. Now, I don’t think Paul is denying that he chooses the sin and fails to take responsibility for his actions. I think he knows he has a choice, but because of the sin nature of his humanness; he knows that in his will he will chose sin every time because it appeals to him. We all like self gratification. I want things the way I want them NOW!!! I want people to say “How high?” when I say “Jump!” I’ve written several blog posts on control lately, (please see the archives). This is the same thing. Physically, I don’t have a lot of control in my life, and as I age I lose more and more, so I control things anyway I can; usually in a negative way. If I’m not happy the N0 ONE should be happy! I don’t have the authority to dictate how other feel. The saying “If Mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.”, is, sadly too true in my home and probably millions of homes all over the world. Ironically it’s the total opposite of what I want for my home; I want our home to be a sanctuary of peace and rest: but this in not what my actions show CREATE A FREE WEBSITE
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