Wow, just wow. This sounds entirely too familiar. From Grace for the Good Girl, by Emily P. Freeman: The mindset with which I typically approached my walk with God was one of attempting victory but secretly expecting defeat. If I prayed for ten minutes, I knew I could have prayed for twenty. If I read one chapter of Psalms, I wondered If I should have read two. I cant count how many New Years Days I resolved to read through the entire Bible in a year because I was trying to satisfy the law in my head. Occasionally, I was able to live up to the rules I thought God wanted me to follow. Then I would look down my nose at those who didnt or couldnt, while only a week later finding myself in their same condition unable to perform anymore, defeated from all the effort. Instead of facing the failure and allowing the law to show me my need for a Savior, I consoled my failure with new and improved intentions to prove myself by myself. And the cycles continued.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 14:57:05 +0000
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