Thoughts for a Discouraged Christian
I came across these lines recently which were written for a despairing Christian who wished to hide from all the world in shame over their sin and the false hope that their sin might be less if they had no chance to show it; if they were removed from temptation, as it were. I thought these lines were good and that perhaps others would like them as well.
“One must realize that such problems must be quietly faced head-on, yet with a degree of patience and much determination. One must always realize that the cleansing, changing, molding work is the Lord’s work, not our own work to push through or to despair over. No excuse for sin should ever be; I do not say that. I mean that we are not to demand of God how he should work. When we fall we must repent and acknowledge our sin. However, we often let Satan work, rather than God, by giving over to despair when we should instead remember the promise in Phil. 1:6, “that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ”. One must take their eyes off themselves and fall at the cross of Christ for renewed strength. Phil.1:6 is a humbling, hopeful, joyous promise to one who has fallen yet again: God has not given up on you yet, and never will.”
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