Wilderness Mentality #8
Number 7 and number 8 are so close. One is very worldly – my life is miserable therefore I am miserable. Today’s mentality is in opposition to the Heavenly – I am not good enough for God.
Nope, I am not. There is nothing at all I could possibly do to earn favor with He who made me. I was born into Original Sin and took off sinning my own sins from the moment I was able.
But that’s not the point. God has already taken care of it. His Son has already accomplished the task of redeeming me. It is because of Jesus’ great sacrifice, and only because of His death on the cross that I am without reproach in God’s eyes.
The point is that I have to embrace God’s great love for me and stop trying so hard to earn it on my own. Instead of trying to earn his favor, I need to love Him with all of my heart and with all of my soul and with all of my mind and with all of my strength. And then go out and do good works because of my love for the Almighty.
Funny thing is … I never think I’m not worthy of God. I’m more concerned with the people around me and whether or not I’m worthy of them. Either that or I’m better than them. Pretty messed up, huh?
I’m not trying to earn God’s favor. I’m trying to earn the favor of sinners. And not out of love for them. Or out of love for God. But out of love for myself. Or lack of love for myself.
The nice thing is this … The more I am made aware of what I have been doing and what I am currently doing; the more I am able to pause and hear my Spirit tell me what I ought to do; the more I am actually making better choices.
And God has placed some amazing people in my life right now that at least get me enough to use the right words to give me time to catch up. People that I feel pretty comfortable exposing my vulnerability to.
I so want to get this right! Before I’m officially 40. Hahahaha. That’s a prayer.
So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
Galatians 4:7 (ESV)
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