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days.

.tune my heart to sing Thy grace.

Jesus sought me when a stranger

wandering from the fold of God

He, to rescue me from danger,

interposed His precious blood.

I finally get it.

¹⁵I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. ¹⁶And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. ¹⁷As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. ¹⁸I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.^[c] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.¹⁹For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. ²⁰Now 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.

²¹So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. ²²For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; ²³but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members.

²⁴What a wretched man I am!

Who will rescue me from this body of death?

²⁵Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!

Romans 7:15-25

Christ is our identity.

Christ is your identity. I don’t care what you’ve done, and I don’t care what has been done to you. Those things are horrible and we can deal with them in Redemption Groups, biblical counseling, community groups, friendship, and relationship, but here’s your identity. It’s not what has been done to you or what has been done by you, but it is what Christ has done for you. In the eyes of Christ, you are clean. You were forgiven. You were adopted. You were redeemed. You are beloved.

You are.

You are.

And I know some of you, the guilt is deep, the sin is real, and life is a wreck. But Christ is good. And if you believe that your identity is transformed in Christ as an adoptive, loved, forgiven, regenerated, transformed, empowered, renewed, hopeful child of God, you will live differently.

Christ is your identity.

-mark driscoll

How can you claim to know the Lord

if you never take the time to speak to Him?

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This prayer series is breaking my heart.

Truth to tell,

exposing sin is easier than applying grace; for, alas, we are more intimate with the former than we sometimes are with the latter. Therein lies our weakness.” -Sinclair Ferguson

straylight run

We said all we had to say
and I realized in time that it didn’t mean anything.
Never,
not ever again.
Not like that.

It is so hard

for me to take a compliment.  And to be able to accept it without being extremely awkward.
I’m sorry, friends.  I’m working on it.

Listening

to the whispering in my ear, soft but getting stronger
telling me the only purpose of my being here
is to stay a bit longer

-mwy