Tuesday Jan 17th
Have you ever made the wrong choice? You knew the right choice, you knew what you were supposed to do, but you just couldn’t help yourself, and now you regret it. Maybe you’re mad at yourself; maybe you’re depressed about your choice, maybe you feel like you’re never going to get it right. Good news is you’re not the first to feel this way.
Read Romans 7:14-20 and write down your thoughts
Confused? Basically Paul is talking about how frustrated he is with himself. He knows what he needs to do to live abundantly; to live the way God is calling him to live. Problem is he just keeps making the wrong choices, he can’t help himself. When you begin to live a different lifestyle, it’s normal the way you use to live would keep coming back. It’s natural, your default, the way you’ve always done things. Now you’re doing things different and you’re not supposed to do those old things anymore. But it’s hard, it takes time, effort, and being intentional about change. Go ahead and journal some of those things you keep doing, that you want to change.
Here’s the good news for us, Paul is struggling with this. The same Paul who met Jesus on the Damascus Road, the same Paul who had this radical change in his life when he met Jesus, yet he still struggled. If Paul struggled, we’re going to struggle. And it’s okay, because that all a part of following Jesus, changing from surviving to living abundantly. It is our choices right now that determine whether we are just surviving or whether we are really living
Today pray that God would show you those things you need to change and help you to be intentional about changing them.
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