be in the Word of God every day
Our disordered thoughts are just one example of the thousands of ways that our human sin nature still affects us to this day. In our heads, not understanding or revering the actual glory of God, we believe that we know better, so we try to re-write God’s intention toward us so that it fits our small misshapen box.
Putting God at the center of my life has brought me more fulfillment and peace and joy than I ever had when I was living for myself.
My story is simple. But simple can be powerful. The truth is, I was dead in my sin: anxious, panicky, worried for the future, wound tightly up into myself. Believing Jesus and beginning to walk in his way, freed me from all the burdens I was trying to carry myself. Now I have incomprehensible, unimaginable, other-worldly peace. It's a peace only God can give. Life is still painful and tragedy remains unchanged, but with God, in Jesus, I can walk through anything unscathed.
Repentance is a turning away from sin and toward God. It is the realization that our way is lacking and His is perfect. The author of Psalm 19 is saying that both creation and the law preach God in different ways and intend on leading us toward himself.
Our righteousness is not our own. No measure of good behavior or abstention can make any sort of dent in the work that was already done.
Legalism puts words in God's mouth and makes outward things higher than the matters of the heart.
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