It’s pretty amazing really.
So yesterday I had that verse running through my head all day – “as a man thinketh so is he”. And then I foundeth myself adding ‘eth’ to every verb I saideth.
No, not really, let me start over.
So yesterday I had that verse running through my head all day – “as a man thinketh so is he”. And then I would look at my thoughts – and just shake my head. It is so amazing that I could think this verse one minute and then next thought be a thought about something so removed from what I am striving to become.
Ok, show of hands – or by adding comments ( hint hint) – who else experienced this same thing?
Well, no matter, I know I am not alone, because the writer of a huge chunk of the New Testament of the Bible says the exact same thing.
15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. Romans 7 NIV
I have a feeling he was just as dismayed as I am today when he penned those words. But, just like Paul, the author of those words, we have a way of escape from this trap.
21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! Romans 7 NIV
Yep, there’s the way out.
So, keep working to put your treasure in this Christ and I think you will see the car begin to drift in a direction you want it to go – despite this ridiculous war that is waging inside out minds. But boy, I wish that war was not going on.