It is written that we overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the Word of our testimony. So that I may overcome I would like to share a testimony with you. I realized lately that Ive become really irritated all the time with all kinds of things. The things people did or said started to bother me. The situations that I found myself in started to bother me and I felt like I was getting angrier more and more often. Rather than ask myself if my anger was justified I began to justify my anger. I even went so far as to tell myself that God justified me. But God in his grace; rather than condemn me for this exposed it to me. He confronted me with my lie and reproached me with words like.....endurance, patience, gentleness, kindness. None of these words described the way Id been acting or feeling. I changed my mind (repented) at that moment. I agreed with God that I had been deceiving myself and that I had been proud, arrogant, boastful, and critical. I agreed with God that love is kind, gentle, patient, rejoices in righteousness, thinks no evil, does not boast, does not behave rudely, rejoices in the truth. Once Id confessed my sin and acknowledged it as sin I know as one in Christ that I can no longer live in it. But it is not I but God who does this in me. I share this with you because I am convinced that when we confess our sins to one another then we become healed. James wrote this: James 5:16 16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Revelation 12:11 11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. This is my testimony to you that somewhere along the way I slipped and fell. I crawled when I shouldve been walking. But that by the grace of God in Christ Jesus I have repentance and forgiveness and restoration. And I believe in Him that His Word is true and faithful that He will not leave me to my own devices, but will form me into His glorious image. And in this be followers of me; that to be transformed into His likeness and to speak with Him face to face; is all I want and I will never be satisfied with anything less. Ever.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 03:01:05 +0000
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