We give in to our flesh too easily.
When I have a person holding me accountable, I sin less. When it's "just" God who will know about my actions, I sin.
How crazy and warped is that? That proves that we I am overly concerned about my reputation. How easily we allow ourselves to ignore the truth that God is with us always and sees every time that we decide to choose sin over obedience.
It makes me ill to think about it.
Here's the even crazier part:
He loves us anyway. He sees us consciously choose something OVER intimacy with Him and yet He forgives us.
"As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us." - Psalm 103:12
Amazing love. Really, really hard to understand.
I struggle with mental illness. Like many others, I can't really define myself as falling cleanly into one category or give myself a specific diagnosis. Mine has manifested in different ways during different seasons of my life: sometimes it's anxiety, but other times it's depression, disordered eating, obsessive compulsion or a cocktail of these. Regardless, it's there, and while I experience a lot of happiness in my life, there's also some inner turmoil that I fight to keep at bay. Why am I telling you this? It's certainly not for pity or to draw attention to myself. I'm guessing that many people reading this also struggle, but others may not. For both parties, I want to take a stab at normalizing mental illness and I also want to point out a few things I've found to be true: - Mental illness is not limited to a certain stereotype. Depression doesn't just affect teenagers who prefer dark clothes and hooded jackets! It's not just the poor, ju
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