It happened over and over again.
While reading this psalm I thought of one of my favorite hymns, "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing."
I thought of the words in the third verse.
3 Oh, to grace how great a debtor
daily I'm constrained to be!
Let thy goodness, like a fetter,
bind my wandering heart to thee:
prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
prone to leave the God I love;
here's my heart, Lord, take and seal it;
seal it for thy courts above.
We have within us a sin nature that is against God. We see the wonderful things He has done in our lives and yet the world draws us away from Him. John warned us
1 John 2
15 Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If
anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and
the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father,
but is from the world.
17 The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the
one who does the will of God lives forever. 1 John 2:15-17
Don't be discouraged if you find yourself "prone to wander." The apostle Paul had the same struggles.
15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do
not do, but what I hate I do.
19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do
not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do,
it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
So what's the answer?
24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this
body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through
Jesus Christ our Lord!
As long as we're in our earthly bodies we will struggle with sin. Satan will always be a roaring lion seeking to devour us. The Apostle Paul gives us some great advice in the 6th chapter of Ephesians.
Put on the full armor of God.
10 Finally,
be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.
11 Put
on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s
schemes.
12 For
our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against
the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the
spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
13 Therefore
put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be
able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.
14 Stand
firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the
breastplate of righteousness in place,
15 and
with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace.
16 In
addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can
extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
17 Take
the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
18 And
pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests.
With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s
people.
OK....I've followed a lot of trails on this post. See what God has to say to you from my ramblings....
Don't forget what God has done for you in the past...
and Praise the LORD for His mercy endures forever.
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