What keeps me from leading a joyful life? Simple: my sinful nature…
As much as I want to believe that my life now is closer to the one intended by my Heavenly Father, I still sin. The enemy of my soul is desperately trying to steal, kill and destroy the hope and joy I have found since I decided to hand my life over to Christ. The enemy is planting seeds of doubt and fear along my path, but he is not the only one to blame; my own emotions also gets in the way.
By letting the Holy Spirit take over my life, I think I have been doing much better at fighting the desires of my sinful nature.
“When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.” Galatians 5: 19-21
That’s a lot of grounds to cover… The good news is that, I can really see the Holy Spirit working in my life. It’s a hard thing deny. For instance, I have this almost insatiable desire to serve others; anytime I read or hear “Just show up” I take it as a personal invitation! I signed up for another volunteer opportunity the other day, and someone asked out of concern if I was doing it out of guilt… I don’t think ANYONE should sign up for anything out guilt. I try to be very careful about that…
This podcast also marked the end of the “Getting off the emotional roller coaster series”. What have I learned? Trust! Trusting God can be a challenge sometimes; I am still tempted to just “get things done”. It works sometimes, but more than often, I just end being dissatisfied with the results, and end right back to where I started. Trusting Him, means trusting Him with every areas of my life, not just the obvious ones… I read this as I was driving today:
“Exercise daily. Walk with Jesus”
Still learning… still walking
EED
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