Each day I live, I feel like I am following a routine, a mere formality of daily activities instead of remembering that every moment I live is because of His mercy. I do not want to be dependent on others, but still.... I lack initiative.
(Romans 7:15-23)
'For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do.
If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good.
But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.
For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not do, that I practice.
Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good.
For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.
But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.'
yesterday the sermon was about hindrances in our faith. I felt that it was very apt for me. I feel that somehow I am stuck right now, not moving forward; although i may LOOK like i am, i know my heart is not.
ReplyDeletealot of times we know the things that we must do, so that we may break out of our current state. but many times too we can't do it because we feel too weak.
But the sermon encourages us to break through these hindrances. don't get stucked at these checkpoints. which is something I am trying very hard now. jiayou together! (: