This same thing is one of the most insidious manners in which Christian’s sin. We take the blessings of God and credit them to our abilities and turn it into an idol…the idol takes over and we can reject God in search of more glory, more honor, more pleasure, more fame…
God allow my heart to be soft to you in humility and credit You wholly with all that you have blessed me. Please strengthen my resolve to point to You in every victory and every blessing!
God calls us to be faithful as we accomplish the work He called us to. He wants us to understand that He alone is God and the only one worthy of molding our will toward. Lord, help me to be malleable as I endeavor to be surrendered to You!
What an amazing description of how we knowingly submit ourselves to temptation when we are not walking by the Spirit. If we are thinking of how we may flirt with the desires of our flesh, our fall is inevitable and fully rests on our shoulders.
Lord help me to flee from getting close to the line and run into your arms!
It is impossible to read this book and not see that God really wants us to know Him, worship Him and follow Him. Lord, help me to do those things every day!!!
God has shown patience to his people for decades, but His message in this chapter is that he is no longer waiting…the time to pay the piper has arrived. Their sin will now be punished by God…with the intention of reminding His people that He is God.
Lord, help me to listen immediately and not need your punishment to see who You are and act like it.
I love that unity is the first step in the process of transforming the heart from stone to flesh. A signal that it was not just one heart that was solidly frozen to thawed…but actually completely replaces from one that is worthless to one that functions as it should. Lord, I need my heart of flesh, keep me soft, pliable and sensitive to your impulses.
Galatians 5 reminds us that if we walk by the Spirit we will automatically produce the fruit of the Spirit. In the same way the Spirit of God fills us (the new temple) and pushed out all pride and selfishness leaving room for nothing impure. Lord, fill me with your Spirit so that nothing unholy exists!
