Here We Go Again

Have you ever found yourself wondering why in the world you just said what you said again? You know, like a word you’ll say out of bad habit. How about a reoccurring conversation sometimes even with…God? Have you found yourself in the same mess you thought was over with and thought to yourself, “Haven’t I been here before?” Why is it that we seem to find ourselves in the same mess over and over again? We tend to think that we cleaned it up somehow and we’ve moved on but, no it’s not over yet. When you least expect it, WHAM!!! THERE IT IS AGAIN! It can be an old behavior like compulsive shopping or it can be a curse word you haven’t said in a really long time. It could be a complaint you’ve given time and time again or someone complaining to you about the same thing again! Have you been there?

Well my friend the Bible teaches us that the Lord likes to refine us. “Like a refiner of silver he will sit and closely watch as the dross is burned away…refining them like gold or silver, so that they will do their work for God with pure hearts.” Malachi 3:3 (TLB) As believers in Christ we are to always be moving forward with growth and maturity. This is why the Lord will have us revisit the things which need to be worked on so that we will change for the better. Old behaviors that are anything but godly are to be changed. The way we speak and the actions we take are to be more Christ-like as the days, weeks, months and years go by. We are not to stay stagnant. God wants us to be an evolving Christian. With His help through His powerful Holy Spirit we are to be evolving into the men and women we were created to be. I thank God for His grace, mercy and His patience with us! For without Him there is no way we can ever change for the better.

I leave you with Romans 12:1-3 from the Message Bible. “So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. I’m speaking to you out of deep gratitude for all that God has given me, and especially as I have responsibilities in relation to you. Living then, as every one of you does, in pure grace, it’s important that you not misinterpret yourselves as people who are bringing this goodness to God. No, God brings it all to you. The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us, not by what we are and what we do for him.“ Amen

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