It’s very hard to see past my finite vision.
anger, rage, hate, human emotions along with pride and envy and lust and greed and sloth and gluttony.
Boy, that’s ALOT to overcome!!
all not easy to control.
Well guess what. God has already promised that He will swallow all this junk up in grace.
This is one of the harder things to sell in gospel preaching. What, this God that seemed to be just ignoring me if not playing pranks on me, is saying He will take all my grief away and replace it with joy? What the hell are you smoking?!?
But here’s the sockdollager. IT’S TRUE!!
And the more childlike you can let yourself get in your faith, the quicker you enter through that door. It really does roll back a life time of spiritual woe and folly.
What happens when one believes on Jesus Christ (to receive the saving love He is approaching with) is a recasting of one’s spiritual battle.
Most of us probably know something like a karma system. You get rewarded for doing right, punished for doing wrong. But you never really get very far doing right in it. You’re living for yourself and just trying to minimize the pain.
When Christ takes your case over (when you permit Him to), now you are in a “guaranteed victory battle.” It really is that good, though it might not feel that way at first. And the devil, the king of this world, will give you hell. Literally. But you will begin to see a power appearing in you that pushes back, more and more and more as time progresses, with more and more and more success. That power is Christ. And you will find that you can’t quit the battle either. God will hem you in to make sure you keep fighting, till you realize what your advantage is.