I love it when I hear a sermon and the message kind of
clicks in my brain. I had one of those, “Oh I get it” moments as I listened to
a sermon today. Which God is no doubt say “Its about time!” J The sermon, Choose
Hope. Simple enough. Choose God and Choose Jesus. When our lives are going
well, and things are going the way we think they should, it’s really easy to
have faith and choose hope. When life gets a bit rough, and God is refining us,
and He is bringing our sins to light so that we can change, it seems our hope
begins to fade. We wonder…
As I have blogged before, I am bad with money, and I can
easily justify the spending, or keeping all of my money. But a light went off
in my brain today – Am I choosing hope? Choosing God? Or am I Choosing Money? Frankly,
this is not an easy pill for me to swallow. Right now my worry over money, over
bills is causing my faith to waiver.
God’s still working me. This refining process is difficult.
God is turning up the heat and removing my impurities. Honestly, I wish all
debts were gone, and bills up to date, and we had a clean slate. Yet I truly
know that God’s not done with me yet, and I would probably continue to justify
spending money….keeping money…not helping out…
So today I hear “You must die to live” – you must surrender
to God! A part of me must die – the part of me that is getting in between God
and me.
What is standing between you and God today?
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