Ah the many questions I ask myself on a weekly basis.
Romans 7:15-20 says, " I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do - this I keep doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it."
Sin. We all have that frenemy. It tears away our desire of righteousness, it closes our ears to God's voice, and it makes big important things, in the moment, not so big a deal. I hate it, but many times I put off reading the Bible because of sinful nature. I'll say, " I'll do it tonight, I'll get around to it." For those of you who do not know me, I am NOT a night owl so when that time comes I am way too exhausted to really understand what I'm reading. So I'll put it off again and again and just like that a weeks gone by and I haven't opened my survival guide to life once. How do I make it through the week? Thank goodness for Jesus :) I fail Him daily, no more like hourly, yet He still gives me free and unmerited favor. I am a hot mess most of the time just trying to make it and He still loves me.
Now I'm not saying to heck with reading the Bible and trying to be a good Christian. ( Go crazzzzzzy ;) ) I'm saying that even though failure isn't inescapable, God's grace and love and a chance to start over is always available. Don't give up on a righteous life! Let your failures and mishaps redefine the way you see God's grace. Look at us then look at Him. A beautiful picture of perfect love covering brokenness. Yes, I am not a perfect Christian, but I'm loved by a perfect Savior.
- Heather Grace
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