"Behold, I make all things new.
Even your heart."
(From the song Shine with Cory Asbury and Allyson Prior, by the way.
It's on the playlist way down, if you want to hear it.)
Do I believe that's true? I want to just say yes, but do I live like that? Do I live in the knowledge that God's making me new? In that faith?
I moan, wallow, sin, and when I'm stuck, I just sit there.
Miserable and grumpy.
That is not an attitude that believes God is transforming me. Yes, he helps me, but that does not mean I can just sit there either. He offers to be by my side, yes, and give me strength and his Spirit, but that doesn't mean I don't have to choose to obey him. I do. There is no excuse for that lack of faith. It's just not in my heart.
But I know I can ask for it. I want it.
At least I know I want to want it.
And he's able. God's able to give me faith and make me new.
What a truth.
STOP
(Sorry I added a couple sentences after five minutes, only to finish the thought.)
1 comment:
"At least I know I want to want it." Oh, am I reminded of Paul's: I do what I don't want to do and the things I WANT to do, these I do NOT do! I love how you said "God's able to give me faith and make me new." Yes and amen.
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