Is there something in your
life that you have decided is broken beyond repair? Something that you have
given up hope that it will ever change. Not something about someone else – but something
about you. With respect to something
that is typically not a good thing, I often hear people say – “Well that is
just the way our family is.” As if to say – “There is nothing I can do about it
– it is the way I was raised or it is my DNA.”
You might feel helpless and hopeless.
Perhaps it is a persistent sin
– a sin that you cannot just seem to shake loose from. Stuck on you like glue. You hate it. Paul talked about his struggles in Romans chapter
7.
“For we know that the law
is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. For what I am doing, I do not
understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate,
that I do….. For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. But I see another law in my members, warring
against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin
which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this
body of death? I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!” – Romans
7:14-15,22-25
The solution to whatever it
is that you think won’t ever change is not trying harder – it is “faithing” harder
– trusting in God more and us less. Like Ezekiel – we are looking at something
that is beyond the realm of possible – but it is not impossible for God. I am thinking
– Ezekiel looked that the bones and knew that they were the bones of dead men –
long gone. God looked at the bones and He
was and is the Creator God who formed man from the dust of the earth – spoke the
universe into being – how difficult would it be for Him to raise up that which
was thought impossible by men? That which you have decided is impossible?
“Now to Him who is able to
do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the
power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all
generations, forever and ever. Amen.” – Ephesians 3:20-21
That is the God who saved us.
That is the God we serve. There is
nothing impossible for Him. That thing that you struggle with – give it to the
Lord. Stop trying to fix it yourself. I
know that all of us have “dead bones” in our lives. As a Christian you are living
a life of new possibilities – where the impossible is now possible but only by
faith. I was just reminding a pastor friend in Jacmel, Haiti – Bondye kapab fé
sa – God can do it! Whatever it is.
By Faith Alone By His Grace Alone And For
His Glory Alone
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