To know how good you are you must first know how no good you are! If you are feeling miserable, worthless, if you are wrestling with negative thoughts, unforgiveness and lust; I have good news for you. If you are happy being you, find a joy in defending your actions and know that the troubles of your life are because some else, not you, is causing that trouble.... well you may not want to read any more.
How often are we convicted of our sins? I hope each of us daily is convicted of our sin and need to find the Lord so that we can live. I know that it sounds "sick", by today's enlightened ones, to deal with sinning every day, but it is one of life's biggest blessings. God doesn't mind telling me how much of a sinner I am because He has a big stick (cross) that He uses to share His love with me.
The love of God is the greatest gift that man can know. But we will know little of it unless we also know and except that we are sinners. This issue of sin is not a total worthless mindset, but it is a total worthless mindset without God's intervention and help. Only when I need and value redemption do I understand my worth and God's love.
My pride and independence war against my need to be forgiven and thus my encounter with the cross and love of God. Don't we all know people who want to live a "godly life" with out being a sinner? Don't we all know people who are good people and love God, they just don't need to be labeled and judged. Yet this same group of people fill their lives with so many other things in a search to be loved, because they do not truly encounter or experience the love of God. To go deep in the love of God you must also deal deeply with the depths of your own sin, selfishness, greed, lust and evil.
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sin is a constant battle with me, it is a war i lose constantly, i feel like darkness is in cintrol of me and not Jesus, I wan't to serve Him but I can not, I sin because I love too, I pray He takes this love of sin out of me all the time, but He does not, but I don't blame Him, I blame myself, i am evil. I just wan't to find out how to make the Lord hear me and deliver me out of my sufferings.
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