Today was very productive. A neccesity in the lagging summer days of laze. I moved some ice for my dad, read 220 pages in my summer reading book, answered a question (you really can't answer them until you finish the book), ran over my lines for souled out, went briefly over my sermon, and the last thing I did was weed the yard for money.
As I was weeding I realized an analogy. In weeding as compared to me. I look at my life and all the different weeds that were in it. I think about God pulled them out for me. I look at how I tried myself but it was as futile as trying to pull the weed out but not getting the root; because without it, the weed would come back the next day. Hence; sin. But rather than stay with the same cliched analogy as I just rambled off I thought about something new. About how God's point of view towards this must be. For me it was annoiying to have to keep getting the root every time. And I think about how annoyed I would get if I had to do it every day; only times like (how many people are in the world) and the fact that I know that if the weed isn't somewhat compliant and holds onto the dirt it is clinging to that I might not get the root and it will be back soon after. It's amazing how long we hold onto dirt we don't have to have and how if we just let God work in on it at the root it can all be gone and similar to a garden; we can become even more beautiful. I think about how Jesus died on the cross just to have us continually go in and out of sin. For him to know what is going to happen but compassion existed enough to still continue on with it. Monotony; in the least. A spark. I want to be that one person who only has to be told once; then gets the idea and gets a flame and spreads it.
Light me on fire, but help me to stay lit and not have to have you continually come back to light me but rather so you may touch another's life. And that in ME touching other's lives and lighting them on fire, I stay lit.
Start the spark,
light the fire,
love others,
spread the fire,
and in turn,
stay lit.
"Cause I know my God saved the day, and I know his word never fails, and I know my God made a way for me, It's gonna be alright, Salvation is here."
Salvation:
Preservation or deliverance from destruction, difficulty, or evil.
A source, means, or cause of such preservation or deliverance.
Deliverance from the power or penalty of sin; redemption.
I must spread this "salvation" for it sounds miraculous.
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I hope you don't think God is any way annoyed or frustrated with the fact that He has to continually "weed" us. Because nothing could be further from the truth. God expects us to sin. If He didn't expect us to sin, Jesus' sacrifice wouldn't have happened. What makes the grace so amazing (aside from the fact that it exists in the first place) is that God doesn't love us any less the more we feel we have to use His grace.
Jesus' one sacrifice, at that point in history, covered every single mistake made from the beginning of time to the end of time. All at once. The mistakes you've made and the mistakes you're going to make (and if you're making any right now)...they're all covered *already*. It's not "once I ask for forgiveness, His blood will cover my sin. It's already covered. So how could He get tired of doing something that He only had to do once?
One last reason why it doesn't make sense for Him to get tired of dealing with our sin: it's about the journey, just as much as it is about the destination...often more. The continual process (that usually seems mundane, aggravating, frustrating to us) is what is making us more like Him...which is what He wants! The thing He wants most is for us to know Him, and one of the most effective ways of getting to know Him is continually surrendering (often the same thing) to Him over and over again.
If you look in the Bible, the only things that incited God's wrath were hypocrisy, being unteachable or unwilling to change. (At least I think...I didn't do any research before making that statement...haha) He never ever gets mad at people for dealing with sin...especially when their heart is right and they're actively trying to deal with it.
Ok, that's all. That got really long.
By the way, here's my xanga in case you forgot it:
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Bah! I didn't end my quotation in the second paragraph!
I am ashamed.
hehe..
I wrote a lot in my comment, or I write a lot in my journal?
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