"Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective." James 5:16
I needed to run a quick errand and didn't want to redress myself since I didn't need to get out of the car. There I stood with a shirt full of dog and goat hair, banana smoosh spot from a hug I got after kids made banana bread and a few more unknown smudges LOL. I was a mess and didn't realize how bad! So with baggie work jeans (hey they are comfy) wearing my dirty shirt, I slipped on my shoes. What a sight! I grabbed my sweater and zipped it up, hoping to hide the messy shirt. While Driving it hit me how often we do the same thing with our lives. Cover our sin, our pain and sorrow with a clean outer shell. It's an illusion of being fine. But under that clean shell the suffering remains. I saw a church skit one time about selling "press on faces." They had one for every occasion. "Run into an acquaintance" face, "In laws come over" face, and one we all may have worn one time or another, The "Church face". The skit was hilarious, but the truth behind it was sad. Like my sweater, covering up what is really there, beneath the falsehood, the lie, my shirt was still dirty. What is your cover up? Laughter?, Being gruff? continuously doing for others? Hiding?
"Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective." James 5:16
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Have you heard this before? " If you aren't breaking any laws, you should not worry if there is a police officer behind you"
How about this? If you aren't breaking any of His Laws, then you wont worry when you stand before Him." We are called to be children of the light. Yet so many live like a child of the world. It's not easy to Live our Faith. There are so many worldly things that drive a wedge between our spirit and our flesh. When told of 2 beast living in man, one who looks to destroy and the other full of kindness and compassion, a boy asked of an old man, which beast will win, the old man answered, " the one you feed" Feed the flesh and the flesh will destroy the Spirit. Feed the Spirit and have the strength to over come the flesh. The world offers lies, joy for the moment but GOD offers eternal joy, joy that never ends. Feed The Spirit. "For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light" Ephesians 5:8 |
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