Did you know, God wants you to fly? Yes, fly.
Fly free of today’s guilt. Yesterday’s mistakes. Last week’s mess-ups!
You are made for heaven. This is not your home. Read that again, this is not your home.
God knows Satan wants to take you down while He lifts you up up up. Just as he lifted up Jesus on a cross in love. Jesus died for your sins and mine on that horrific day.
Do you know how much God loves you? Have you opened the gift of salvation?
The Struggle
Like the apostle Paul we struggle. We Christians still make ugly choices (i.e., sin) all the time.
In my pride, I want to pretend I’m better than that. The truth is, I screw up. You screw up. The bible calls it our sin nature.
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: Although 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 me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin. (Romans 7:20-25, NIV, emphasis mine)
We were born in Adam; when you and I became believers in the one true God, we got a new identity in Christ. We are now in Christ. As crazy as it sounds, we are saints in God’s eyes. Ephesians 1:3
Sinning saints.
Sinning saints. . .this is who we are in Christ until the rapture or God takes us home. What’s a sinning saint to do?
Repent. Repentance is more than saying “I’m sorry.”
Repentace: A Super Gift
Repentance is one of God’s many gifts to us. It’s restoration and peace and joy and hope sweet hope. I had thought is was a real drag. Right up there with, , ,
bouncing a check
getting a call from the school principal
having a root canal
How wrong could I be?
Repentance Is Happiness
Repentance is happiness. Tweet that! Seriously. It’s a U-turn in your thinking. When you decide to turn from your selfish desires and seek God, you experience peace and contentment. Repenting of a wrong is motivating. It motivates you to change.
Not because you have to. Because you want to.
You sense the Holy Spirit flowing through you like a river. Truly and wonderfully amazing.
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