My Confession

“When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.  For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members.  What a wretched man I am!  Who will rescue me from this body of death?  Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!” Romans 7:21-25 (NIV)

God speaks.  He tells me what to write for this blog, and He gives me the words to say.  Some are encouraging, but some are hard.  When I write what God tells me, it is not just for those of you who are reading the blog—it’s for me. He wants to change me, too.  Some of the very things I write about are hard for me to do. As I have been writing about the last days and having a burden for those that don’t know Christ, God has been speaking to me about my family.  Some of my children, their spouses, and my grandchildren do not know Jesus.  I confess to you, as I have to God that, when it comes to my family, I fear man more than I fear Him.  I love them all and want them to know God’s love for them more than anything in this world.  But I hold back, because I fear their rejection.  In my mind, I know that it is God that I should fear—He is the one I should want to please.  But as Paul says, there is another law at work in my body, waging war against the law of my mind.  I know, in my flesh, I can’t change this. But I also know that Jesus, living in me, is able.  Please pray for me, as I pray for you