Hello and Gods Blessings be upon all of you.
When I consider my own walk with God often times I am not pleased. I can relate to Paul’s words in his letter to the believers in Rome,
Romans 7:14-20 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
And then Paul explains the truth of his and my (our) situation;
Romans 8:16 The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.
The devil is a master at deception, look around, the evidence is plain to see.
I tell people repeatedly that two things happen when we sin, conviction and condemnation.
The Holy Spirit convicts us of being separated from God’s perfect plan for us, He shows us our need to repent and seek Gods presence. He leads us to true comfort!
On the other hand there is condemnation, this is the devil and our own thoughts that have been trained in this world, that is under his deception. The devil tells us things like, see, you knew you couldn’t stay on the narrow path, look at yourself, what a failure, why don’t you just give up. You’re a lost soul anyway, just go have your fun and don’t think about it any more. Yea your going to hell and you cant change that fact. Look at yourself, HA who are you kidding. God doesn’t want anything to do with someone like you, you are a repeat sinner, you have thrown your redemption out the window.
Remember Job’s wife saying to him, why don’t you curse your God and die!
But we are not walking in sight we are to walk in faith, faith that God is trustworthy, and when He says something, He will see it through;
John 3:17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
Sorry for going off thread there but as the Spirit leads…
Yes there are still small voices in our heads, The Holy Spirit who leads us into all truth, our own sin affected conscious, and the powers of darkness who are trying to steal away our faith, to which I can loudly proclaim with Paul;
NO, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. AMEN and AMEN
Romans 8:37-39
And again I say GOD LOVES YOU!
Your Brother Jerry-The berlin Bear