Bless the Lord oh my soul, I'll worship your holy name...
You know, it is nights like these that I feel incredibly unworthy to worship my God. He has shown me such mercy and forgiveness in my life and I continually reject him and want to do my own way. This day is another one of those struggles. Why does God continue to forgive me even though I go my own way? Why does my God continue to love me even though I don't deserve it? I don't know why but I do know that I am grateful.
I feel like David. I know I have grown in my faith and I can see the affect it has had on my life. I love seeing how far I have come! However, I also see where God needs to continues chipping away the old me and it is painful. David cried out in 2nd Samuel 12:13 "I have sinned against the Lord." David committed far worse sins then I have (in my human eyes) but I understand that cry. I have sinned against a God who loves me more then I could even know in so many aspects of my life: Pride, anger, lust, hatred, injustice, gossip, and hypocrisy. He could do so much better then me but he continues to love me. It is one of those paradoxes that I am quite grateful for.
I have realized something incredible though and I continue to learn it. God forgives. The sins that we keep running to are sins that must be cleared out of our lives. In 1st John 1:8-9 it says, "If we say we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
He is faithful and just to forgive us for our sins. This God loves us way too much to leave us the way we are and I do not know about you who are reading this, but my prayer is that God keeps molding and shaping me into his image. "For I am confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus" Philippians 1:6.
I am confident that God will keep working in me. I want to bend to his will though...not break to it.
You know, it is nights like these that I feel incredibly unworthy to worship my God. He has shown me such mercy and forgiveness in my life and I continually reject him and want to do my own way. This day is another one of those struggles. Why does God continue to forgive me even though I go my own way? Why does my God continue to love me even though I don't deserve it? I don't know why but I do know that I am grateful.
I feel like David. I know I have grown in my faith and I can see the affect it has had on my life. I love seeing how far I have come! However, I also see where God needs to continues chipping away the old me and it is painful. David cried out in 2nd Samuel 12:13 "I have sinned against the Lord." David committed far worse sins then I have (in my human eyes) but I understand that cry. I have sinned against a God who loves me more then I could even know in so many aspects of my life: Pride, anger, lust, hatred, injustice, gossip, and hypocrisy. He could do so much better then me but he continues to love me. It is one of those paradoxes that I am quite grateful for.
I have realized something incredible though and I continue to learn it. God forgives. The sins that we keep running to are sins that must be cleared out of our lives. In 1st John 1:8-9 it says, "If we say we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
He is faithful and just to forgive us for our sins. This God loves us way too much to leave us the way we are and I do not know about you who are reading this, but my prayer is that God keeps molding and shaping me into his image. "For I am confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus" Philippians 1:6.
I am confident that God will keep working in me. I want to bend to his will though...not break to it.
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