Galatians 4:8-12
"8 Before you Gentiles knew God, you were slaves to so-called gods that do not even exist. 9 So now that you know God (or should I say, now that God knows you), why do you want to go back again and become slaves once more to the weak and useless spiritual principles of this world? 10 You are trying to earn favor with God by observing certain days or months or seasons or years. 11 I fear for you. Perhaps all my hard work with you was for nothing. 12 Dear brothers and sisters,[f] I plead with you to live as I do in freedom from these things, for I have become like you Gentiles—free from those laws."
This passage reminds me of a very true saying for us Christians, "Why do we slowly back away from Hell, rather than turn our backs and run as fast as we can toward Heaven?" I have many bad habits and sin temptations that I can easily return to, and often am tempted to fall back in because I deep down am lazy and tired of working so hard to maintain. I think I focus TOO much sometimes on how hard it is, rather than realize how much pain/agony/self-loathing/negative consequences/HELL I'm saved from by persisting in keeping my guard up. I should be thankful, and not feeling like I'm missing the party so to speak. Lord, strengthen my resolve and attitude to see the blessings in continuing to run this race for you. Amen.
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That's a heavy post Jamie. It reminds me of the verse about the dog returning to it's vomit. Sounds gross, but it's exactly what we do when we return to our sins. Those sinful activities that call us have as much nutritional value for our spiritual body as vomit has for our physical body. Nasty imagery, but that's how I want to view my sins of choice.
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