Mindy’s Place

Many of you know that I am struggling with my faithless eating habits and the Lord has led me to study a book called “Love to Eat, Hate to Eat” by Elyse Fitzpatrick. As I was reading today I was reminded of the hard work involved in being godly. I think we are all tempted to look at other people and assume that being godly just comes naturally to some, while it requires diligence and hard work for others. BUT, the Bible is clear that this is not the case. Recently I’ve become convicted of my tendency to KNOW the right thing to do, but not to actually live it out. God’s Word speaks to this is James 1:22-25:
“Prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man
who looks at his natural face in the mirror; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. But
one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man shall be
blessed in what he does.”
Being a hearer only produces guilt and condemnation which only serves to stop our spiritual growth…I have been amazed by the grace God is pouring out on me as I seek to study His truth and obey it. May I encourage you to just cry out to God for grace to believe that He will meet you even in your smallest effort. He is for you, not against you. He has already proven this by pouring out His wrath on His Son for our sin!

Growing by Grace,
Mindy