Dec. 27, 2007
Well then.
Posted in Growing in the Lord
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*sigh* It's disheartening to realize that I am not where I thought I was in my walk with the Lord. I've been gently rebuked about my attitude on two separate issues this week. By two different sisters in Christ. And OH! it hurts! "Faithful are the wounds of a friend" Proverbs 27:6a It's made even more difficult by the reactions & attitudes of those closest to me. They mirrored my own and were even MORE intense than mine. But that has just helped me to see how wrong I was and how ugly my attitude. Unfortunately, it also gives me a "good excuse" to wallow in my own shabby righteousness. "For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want... Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!" Romans 7:19, 24-25a I have every "right" to my reactions to these situations! I have every "right" to be offended by the "calling out" I received! Or I can be right in Christ's righteousness. "All discipline for the moment seems not joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness." Hebrews 12:11 I hate the conflict raging today between my head and my heart. |
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Posted by Vicki