We spend too much time counting our assets,
assessing and reconsidering our innate abilities,
measuring and testing our skills and natural strengths.
Enough!
We waste too much energy mustering our own courage,
relying on our own power rather than trusting God's hand,
dreaming that our accomplishments result from our rightness.
Enough!
We squander too many resources and opportunities,
despising instead of loving those different from our likes,
deconstructing rather than building up those who cross our paths.
Enough!
We hinder so much biblical and cognitive growth,
concealing a life of habitual sin and spiritual laziness,
dedicating the altar of our hearts for the worship of created things.
Enough!
We cover miles upon miles on the road of idleness,
not bearing fruit, not sacrificing, not feeling, not growing,
not submitting our minds to the transforming power of renewal.
Enough!
"Withdraw your hand," says the Lord.
Enough!
Isn't it high time we stop destroying ourselves with ingratitude, idolatry, apathy, hatred, pride, self-righteousness, entitlement, ingratitude, impatience, immorality, verbal homicide, spiritual suicide, and the like? Isn't it high time we drop our exhausted souls and weary hearts at the foot of the cross where Christ harbors no anger, no condemnation, no rejection, but offers abundant grace and inexhaustible mercy?
Day in and day out, the sword of sin slashes our hearts into pieces wages war against ou
Day in and day out, the sword of sin slashes our hearts into pieces wages war against ou
In the threshing floor of our hearts, the Holy Spirit stands ready to halt the sword of punishment we persist in inflicting upon ourselves. Instead, He offers and extends grace upon grace upon grace.
Won't we heed His hand today?
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