Thursday, February 7, 2013

Taking Captive Every thought

Someone asked me how my day was going and the first thoughts I had were about how lousy I ate.  Why is the FIRST criteria that I use for judging my day food?!  An idol perhaps?!  Something for sure to pray about!  I want to take every thought captive and evaluate it based on the gospel of Jesus!  I CANNOT live up to the gospel and my thoughts need to be based on the reality that I live OUT of the Gospel.  Am I seeking sanctification? Yes!  But can the filters that I use to make judgments and analyses must be founded on who I am IN Jesus Christ, not who I am in Kandy or who I am because of what I ate/didn't eat.  May I then worship accordingly and not sit paralyzed!  IN Jesus Christ and OUT OF the Gospel is how I want to live!  May God help me through His Holy Spirit!!!

It is a process, do I still feel lousy because of how I ate? Yes.  But does that make ME a terrible person? Does God even see what I ate?  The truth of the matter is that in my mistakes and poor choices I go to the cross and worship!  Repent and Worship and get washed clean again and then worship some more; for more hours in the day to make better choices, to worship some more and love God better and more!

1 comment:

Scott and Katie said...

Amen! Great words to be encouraged by. I hope you continue to take to heart how Jesus sees you--beautiful and wonderfully made! Lots of love.