Blessed Are Those Who Mourn
I’ve been thinking about what Christ mourned over and what I should be mourning over and I’m convicted that I haven’t mourned over sin (my sin in particular) nearly enough. This past week in our Sunday School class someone used the term “subtle turning” to describe how most Christians(who haven’t had a radical conversion) come to grace.
That phrase really grabbed my heart in our small group discussion on Sunday morning and I’m hearing God say that there is no “subtle” turning from sin; either we turn or we remain mired in temptation. I can’t tell you how much of my life has been spent flirting with sin and then flirting with repentance.
I’m resolving and praying that God might help me to begin rooting out every bit of sin that I’ve allowed to sit inside my heart. I don’t know where that will take me, but I know I have to walk through it to get where God desires me to be. Just want to leave you with a couple of quotes from the “Fresh Encounter” study that really jumped out at me:
“the condition of our heart determines the quality of our walk with God.”
and
“it is inadequate merely to try to reform our behavoir. We MUST allow God to thoroughly deal with our hearts.”
Total time in prayer this week: 2 hrs
