As finals week is underway, crunchtime approaches and I am finding myself stacked with loads of stuff to get done but no time to do it. This for me is obviously an excuse seeing as how even when I set aside time to study, I don't. I spend most of my day at school and find plenty of time for leisure inbetween classes. I jet to work and return home beat. I long for a rest yet salvage just enough energy to get on the computer and compose a few emails along with this blog. After a moments reflection I'm astounded when I realize how much precious time I really have and the amount of that time I waste. That stack of work slowly becomes a pile of excuses that I seldom bring myself to realize.
This is sin! And beyond academics, I shove my necessity for the word of God to the bottom of my 'to do list.' "But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. " (Matthew 4:4) Just as Jesus was tempted, I too could not escape those places where the devil loves to linger! With every excuse I flirted with satan to use my laziness as a means of seperation from God, when all I needed were the revitalzing words of a faithful Saviour.
Just three days ago I was uttering the words of a psalmist "As the deer pants for You, O God." (Psalm 42:1) Yet today at work I found myself joining in conversations with non-believers, joking about things that I knew weren't glorifying or even the least bit pleasing to God. It makes me realize that much more, how desperate our souls require God's unfailing word. Each morning he fills our cups with grace anew, only to be poured out and filled again. There is no greymatter with sin. Where Jesus is not, sin is present fully; and until we realize this our lives as redeemed Christians are unsustainable. May His blood and mercy continue to cover our wrongs as we strive to become the Christ-like beings we were made to be.
Submerged in His mercy, drowned by His grace...
-Hoon
Yea your right as finals are coming up we feel as though there isn't enough time, but really spend the small amounts we might even call it to do other things that are a waste of time. Sometimes we even make qts the last thing on our list to do at home which should really be on top of our list. We need to constantly repent for the sins that we commit and allow ourselves to realize what we have done was wrong which is really repenting in the end. We have to constantly put our cross everyday to win the battle against. Oh yeah thanks for sharing
ReplyDeleteJames 4 written all over this :-) (Minus the quarreling part)
ReplyDeleteHahaha everytime i read your posts i'm like...oh yeah i remember this...oh and that! I think it's cause I keep referring to the Next sermons hahaha.
Amen dude - I am greatly challenged.