Duplicitous x Lessons of Love

 I love you LORD. I fall short constantly. Like Paul, I find myself doing the things that I'd rather not do while not doing the things that I should do... Its duplicitous to think that your love (God) would let me fall when everything about you speaks life to my inner being.  I give you my pain for your joy, my disobedience for your grace. my life for your salvation. Let me not LIVE double-mind any longer but be transparent and grateful in all circumstances.

Lord help me to stay focused on the primary goal which is to make much of you so that I do not waste my life on selfish entitlements and lacking gratitude for where you've brought me from.

More Humble. Yes really more.

Recent events have really exposed the dire need to persistent to be more humble in the response to attacks, tests, and just life in general. Jesus died for this very thing. Thought for the day...

James 4:4-10 & 1 Peter 5:5-11

JAMES 4:4-10

4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us? 6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:

“God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”

7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

1 PETER 5:5-11

5 In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because,

“God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”

6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. 7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

8 Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 9 Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.

10 And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. 11 To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.

#overself, #sofallen

Seeking His excellence...

JG