I was talking with a friend of mine the other day on IM, and we began by joking but moved into some more serious subjects.  I reminded him (as if he didn't know!) to keep in mind that I'm not perfect.  He replied, "but you are striving and that is more than i can say about a lot of people i see."

The fortunate thing about having an online conversation with some one is that you don't have to get your mouth shut before you can go on, because I probably looked something like this O_o and said, "it's a lot more than I can say of myself too often".  Which was completely true!  There are way too many times when I, if I am being honest at all, have to say that I am not really making an effort to please God.  Sure, I'm not doing anything BAD, but that isn't what He wants.  He wants me, living for Him with everything I have... striving after Him...

Last night I was reading a prayer from The Valley of Vision and part of it says, "My sin is not so much this or that particular evil, but my continual separation, disunion, distance from Thee, and having a loose spirit towards Thee."  It's a question which I need to ask myself constantly.  Am I striving after God?  Or do I have a "loose spirit" towards Him?  Am I consciously trying to please Him?  Or am I just not committing sins of comission?

I was thinking about it again tonight.  It's a really hard concept to wrap your mind around... that the spirit which moves the body which I'm in now will someday be cut free from its bondage to the earth, free from its shameful craving for sin, and be able to be totally God's. 

That is an awesome thought.

It is enough to keep me striving.

:)

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Good post.