4 August 2021
I am not Stuck!
Galatians 5:16
So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves.
We do what we know, y’know? My doctor’s dad is a retired doctor. My friend’s son took over his the family business. My parents were both teachers and so are 2 out of their 3 kids. My husband is a pastor and so was his dad. His dad was a business major in college and so was his daughter. Do you see where I’m going with this? We are either drawn to the same things through DNA or we simply just do what we know. It’s great. The downside is that we can also, intentionally or unintentionally, pick up familiar ungodly habits.
On Sunday, Rob was reminding us from Hebrews 11 how Abraham & Isaac both tell their wives at some point to tell people they’re siblings which had horrible repercussions for the unsuspecting potentially dangerous strangers. Isaac & Jacob both resorted to extreme favoritism among their children and it brought horrible consequences. We’ll never know how God would have executed HIS plans because of the human interference by these fathers and sons. Perhaps these parents focused too much on what THEY did over how God graciously bailed them out.
A parent who accidentally or purposefully doesn’t paint God with grace and mercy won’t parent with any either. And even though no one pays for someone else’s sin (see Ezekiel 18), clearly we do naturally follow our examples.
Thankfully, no one is STUCK! No one has to live what has been passed on to them (anger, adultery, impatience, manipulation, etc). No one. God has graciously given everyone who believes in his Son his Holy Spirit who will absolutely intervene with all our choices and conversations just like God would’ve done for Abraham, Isaac & Jacob had they LET him.
Galatians 5:16
So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves.
Dear God,
Please interfere in my plans today. Please help me accurately portray you to my family so they aren’t tricked into assigning broken human attributes to you. You are great and amazing and full of grace and mercy and do not treat us harshly or punish as we deserve. (Psalm 103) Help me be like you and pass that on. I love you and pray in Jesus’ name, amen.
I am not Stuck!
Galatians 5:16
So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves.
We do what we know, y’know? My doctor’s dad is a retired doctor. My friend’s son took over his the family business. My parents were both teachers and so are 2 out of their 3 kids. My husband is a pastor and so was his dad. His dad was a business major in college and so was his daughter. Do you see where I’m going with this? We are either drawn to the same things through DNA or we simply just do what we know. It’s great. The downside is that we can also, intentionally or unintentionally, pick up familiar ungodly habits.
On Sunday, Rob was reminding us from Hebrews 11 how Abraham & Isaac both tell their wives at some point to tell people they’re siblings which had horrible repercussions for the unsuspecting potentially dangerous strangers. Isaac & Jacob both resorted to extreme favoritism among their children and it brought horrible consequences. We’ll never know how God would have executed HIS plans because of the human interference by these fathers and sons. Perhaps these parents focused too much on what THEY did over how God graciously bailed them out.
A parent who accidentally or purposefully doesn’t paint God with grace and mercy won’t parent with any either. And even though no one pays for someone else’s sin (see Ezekiel 18), clearly we do naturally follow our examples.
Thankfully, no one is STUCK! No one has to live what has been passed on to them (anger, adultery, impatience, manipulation, etc). No one. God has graciously given everyone who believes in his Son his Holy Spirit who will absolutely intervene with all our choices and conversations just like God would’ve done for Abraham, Isaac & Jacob had they LET him.
Galatians 5:16
So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves.
Dear God,
Please interfere in my plans today. Please help me accurately portray you to my family so they aren’t tricked into assigning broken human attributes to you. You are great and amazing and full of grace and mercy and do not treat us harshly or punish as we deserve. (Psalm 103) Help me be like you and pass that on. I love you and pray in Jesus’ name, amen.
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