Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Staying In The Battle
It is an interesting thing about how we make our way through our Christian walk. As believers, we are like other humans in that we simply place one day upon another. By that I mean we are all subject to the passing of time. We would hope to be stacking nothing but days of perfect obedience one upon another. The reality is that we do not always follow our Father as we should, and we stumble and fall. Those days are in the stack, too. And when we look at that stack of good and bad, we can find ourselves lamenting the bad days. For some time I have wrestled with the theology of this, and the best I can come up with is to say that we do need to have real sorrow for our sin to experience repentance. Repentance is turning from one thing to another. If we have true sorrow and seek forgiveness, our Father will turn to us and grant it. To turn to re-examine the past sin is to give it opportunity again in our lives to grow in some cases, I suggest. It seems a far better use of our time to work towards assuring what we stack today is worthy of the calling on our lives, and that we pray for tomorrow to be holy to our Father.
Psalms 4:1 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
2 O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
3 But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the Lord will hear when I call unto him.
4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
Today, let us ask our Father to help us to make today one of the good days.
Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You are our mighty King. Praise the name Yahuah. Send us today Your overwhelming provision. Forgive us for our sins. Cleanse us from our sins, past and present, and help us to turn to You. Heal up our hearts and minds. Deliver us from the evil that steals and destroys. Restore to Your people one hundred times one hundredfold. Amen.