So my waking thoughts were on discipline and I asked.. How am I suppose to do this in your strength and not in the strength of my flesh.. This has been a struggle with in the desire to live a disciplined life. I don't want to glory in my flesh but only in his grace.. That his grace would be my strength. But that I wouldn't wait or expect for him to do it for me.. Where is the balance.
For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline. (2 Timothy 1:7 NLT)
Strength.. He enables us to have strength.. We only need apply it.
... Utmost segment for today...
Our battles are first won or lost in the secret places of our will in God’s presence, never in full view of the world. The Spirit of God seizes me and I am compelled to get alone with God and fight the battle before Him. Until I do this, I will lose every time. The battle may take one minute or one year, but that will depend on me, not God. However long it takes, I must wrestle with it alone before God, and I must resolve to go through the hell of renunciation or rejection before Him. Nothing has any power over someone who has fought the battle before God and won there.
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