I was having a before bed Bible reading devotion time with my 9 year old son last week, when he said to me, " Mom, I pray and read the Bible, and I am still mean!"
Now, of course I laughed out loud. This was funny to me. He was realizing that our walk with God is a daily ongoing all the time thing. We don't pray once and it is over. Well, not when it concerns our flesh. We battle with our flesh all day, every day...and he was just beginning to "get it".
In Romans 7: 15-17, Paul says: 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 had to explain to my son about sin, and regularly seeking God's forgiveness...that he had to keep his own line of love open with God and not let sin block his direct uplink.
We all deal with flesh every day. We all have different areas of trouble too. Some it is offense, some it is our thought life, others it is our mouth. It doesn't matter what it is, we have to get a hold of it.
Pray that this year, 2010, that it will be the year you "conquor" this area so you can move on to another. Don't waste another year 'wallowing' in the same old junk.
Think about that.............
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