Workday Soul Snack 8/1 ... Unwanted Company
Soul Snack 8/1 ... Unwanted Company
Deep distress too often visits my person. I am then accompanied by a most undesired companion, sadness. Delight is absent. Too often this companion sears my spirit and and again strangles my soul. Healthy 'without', but diseased 'within'.
Daily I diet on The Word. Energetically I tackle the path of righteousness. I seek God honouring purity. Daily I pray for His spirit's infilling. For decades now He has walked ever so gently, patiently and closely beside me. Yet, most sadly, I still sin! Even sin that is decades old rears again, unfinished and remaining undealt with.
The failure of the chance errant word, the tired grace-devoid response, or the carnal greed that just so instantly appears, clearly remains. Shame and condemnation now arise as malevolent compatriots. Failure immediate, the sadness instant.
So deliberately sin still crouches at my door. It still seeks to devour me. Recovered from my past, it aims at my present to rob me now, and then destroy my future.
"... if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door." Gen 4:7
If only my readiness for Him was as deep as my readiness for sin; surely then my sin would wiped out, Jesus would always win!Can only a sage see this crouching unwanted guest?