A word of encouragement for those lacking

[Blain]

If your like me you desire to see as God sees to love as he does to be holy and righteous to be pure and clean to be everything that he is everything that makes him so amazing. But if you are like me which I hope you aren't but it is understandable if you are you know and see all that you are lacking you are well aware of your weaknesses your screw ups everything about yourself that isn't him.

I have spoken and met many ppl like this and I myself am far to aware of the darkness within myself, I have a self loathing but not from depression rather I am disgusted by everything about me that isn't him. I have seen two different Blain's inside me I guess you could call them light and darkness flesh and spirit Blain's The Blain that is full of love that is kind and merciful the Blain that you all know this Blain I adore and want inside me but the Blain of the flesh every part of me that isn't of God's heart I am always asking God to purge and in it's place everything that is him.

However it is a very long and difficult process, to lose ones self is in no way a quick and easy thing. But when I fell in love with God I wanted to be just like him as a child does to one they admire how they copy them. I consider God to be very strong but not for the reason you might think, it isn't because he is God or because he is all powerful I consider him strong because of who he is because of his heart because of his nature and so I desire to be just like him as many of us do.
However far to many times the enemy will remind us of all our weakness and sins and will attempt to make us ashamed and will try to convince us that we could never be like him not with all of our weakness and darkness he tries to convince us that we are unworthy that we are just lowly sinners and are anything but holy and clean he wants us to feel like scum.

I am not going to lie such thoughts go through my mind all the time perhaps because I desire so strongly to be just like my king but I always say to God if anyone can make me just like your son it is you, I trust God I believe in him I don't just believe that he is going to do this inside me I expect it. In the same way we should all expect it, not just believe but to expect. the more you believe in his power the more you trust in what he can do the easier it is to not simply believe but to expect and when you expect that is when the impossible is now possible a door is opened that has never been opened before a way is made where there was none

 

[Joidevivre]

Don't think so much about yourself. None of us will be like Him until we see Him face to face. In the meantime, we will always be mindful how much we need His mercy and grace. Keep your eyes on Jesus, study all about Him, worship Him all the time, meditate on His attributes, and you will begin to change. We become more of what we focus on.

I don't need the enemy to tell me that I am selfish, fall short of being Christlike, and sin daily in so many ways. I just know that as long as I live, I will have a sin (flesh) nature that will always be there. So, I try to do what Paul says in Romans - walk by the Spirit and make choices not to let that part of your nature rule. It doesn't matter so much how we feel, as the choices we make. For it in those right choices that we are allowing the Holy Spirit to do the work of conforming us into the image of Christ.

But even though I'm aware of my sinful nature, I do not put myself down in any way to others, whether verbally or here on CC. Why empower it?

I choose to talk about Jesus and the ways in which He reveals Himself to me, and helps me. Especially about His free gift of righteousness.

 

[Blain]

Don't think so much about yourself. None of us will be like Him until we see Him face to face. In the meantime, we will always be mindful how much we need His mercy and grace. Keep your eyes on Jesus, study all about Him, worship Him all the time, meditate on His attributes, and you will begin to change. We become more of what we focus on.

I don't need the enemy to tell me that I am selfish, fall short of being Christlike, and sin daily in so many ways. I just know that as long as I live, I will have a sin (flesh) nature that will always be there. So, I try to do what Paul says in Romans - walk by the Spirit and make choices not to let that part of your nature rule. It doesn't matter so much how we feel, as the choices we make. For it in those right choices that we are allowing the Holy Spirit to do the work of conforming us into the image of Christ.

But even though I'm aware of my sinful nature, I do not put myself down in any way to others, whether verbally or here on CC. Why empower it?

I choose to talk about Jesus and the ways in which He reveals Himself to me, and helps me. Especially about His free gift of righteousness.

True as long as we live in the flesh we will struggle but striving to be like him especially for the right reasons I think is good

 

[GodIsSalvation]

Praise Jesus, may he continue to grow your great love sir Blain and give you the strength you need in due season.