I'm not sure when or where it happened, but my love for the debate has vanished, and the thought of engaging someone in verbal battle makes me want to vomit. Is this an "evidence of grace," as we would phrase it in care group? One hopes, because I was intolerable. I'm sure there are those who would say I still am intolerable. A little grace seen--much grace still needed.
Of course, were the situation to present itself, and I were in such a state of mind, or such a state of digestion, or such a state of fatigue, or such a state of rebellion, I imagine I could gallop away in debate and trample and surge over whoever stood in my path.
Yet that, too, He will forgive because He is faithful and righteous. Overwhelming grace.
O the deep, deep love of Jesus--
Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free!--
Rolling as a mighty ocean
In its fullness over me--
Underneath me, all around me,
Is the current of Thy love,
Leading onward, leading homeward
To Thy glorious rest above.
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.....I'm eating your Cheez-its, thanks!....
ReplyDeleteYou have grown MUCH in this area...and I'm not the only one to have noticed.
Be wary of thinking that you have 'licked' this sin--it will always be lurking at the door waiting to come in if it finds it unguarded.
You are not more acceptable to God now than you were at your most proud, self-promoting moment. (I know you know this...)
Unspeakable praise to the One Who is our Righteousness! And thanks be to God Who makes us more like our Lord.
......You need to buy more Cheez-its......
your comments were helpful Robin. especially about being more acceptable to God now, isn't that how we humans naturally tend to think?
ReplyDeleteJennaS