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9月19日 Christ's willingness to empower us should occassionally overwhelm us.This is a statement I read tonight in a devotional by Beth Moore, Jesus the one and only. It is a favorite of mine simply because it makes clear the obvious that sometimes is so simple we, I, overlook it. What I was reading tonight concerned Simon Peter. He knew Jesus! Can you imagine walking in His presence? Talking with Him? To have Him take time with you? What would you do if Jesus showed up in the midst of life, as you know it, right now today? What if He showed up at your job? What if you witnessed Him healing, say..your mother-in-law, like He did for Peter? Would it overwhelm you to have Him so close? I can tell you that I feel like I would be right there next to Peter, on my knees, exclaiming, "Go away from me Lord! I am a sinful man!" Luke 5: 8 Have you ever been under spiritual attack? If you read my last devotional on my recent divine appointment, then you know about how God used me, but let me tell you what happened afterwards. Within the hour of speaking with my lake loving neighbor, I had not even gotten home good, before the Devil began using what he thought would devastate me emotionally. He thought that if he pointed out, yet again, my sinful past that he could undo in me what God had just done. But let me tell you what he did not count on. He did not expect that I would already feel the unworthiness of God's call. You see, anytime you are touched by God's holiness, and He commissions you to what is so clearly His task for you it is a life altering, knock you to your knees, wake up call. Just like it was for Peter. When His holiness meets our unholiness it is truly overwhelming. It is not about what you've done, it was not about what I'd done, but more about how overwhelming the realization, of who I am... and who HE is. This sudden realization of one's own sin, no matter how long ago, is debilitating painful, the shame of how ungrateful I was for the sacrifice made for me mortifies me beyond anything I can explain to you. This was not the Devil's work however, it was the fact that anytime we get that close to God we can not help but get an inside look at ourselves. And when we are honest we realize as Beth Moore so grandly stated ,"..even if I could cease all sinful behavior, I would continue to battle sin throughout my life because I don't just commit sin. Apart from GOD, I am sinful." It is a painful, yet liberating experience seeing your true self. Liberating because in that moment of true honesty, we are closer to God than ever and so we are fueled by our own unworthiness! Isn't it just like God... to use the Devil's attempts to break us, to only make us stronger in our witness and in our desire to be closer to HIM! In Faith, Redeemed トラックバックこの記事のトラックバックの URL は次のとおりです。 http://ohforheavenssake.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A1A1B08076ED4BAC!402.trak この記事を参照しているブログ
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