Questions

November 14, 2018 – Do I have a lack of discipline? Do I really love God and love people? Have I reached a point where I no longer have hope? 
 
These questions represent some of my biggest fears. They are things to which I desperately hope I have the right answers. I can’t bear the thought that they are a true representation of all that lies beneath the surface of my life. 
 
I hesitate for a moment… I believe that my heart is good—made in the image of God and restored by Jesus to its original glory. Why then, does it feel like my heart is my true betrayer? Has it been set up by my flesh to look guilty, so I won’t trust anything?

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There is nothing quite so crippling as to lose heart and feel utterly worthless. I struggled with this off and on for many years. Even though I learned to differentiate between my sin nature or flesh and my heart, I still couldn’t get any traction in my walk with God. Then, I realized that I was making my relationship with God all about me and my own power to live a life worthy of him. The Holy Spirit drew me to this amazing truth:

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Son. Family. Forever. Free. Meditate on those words. Let them sink deep into your soul. This is what it means to know Jesus as Savior and Lord. We don’t just get part of the promise. We share in it all. There is no such thing as half-way making a commitment to Christ, and vice versa, He doesn’t make a half-way commitment to you!