SHUT DE DO

Ahhh, The first of June.

I want to apologise for the lack of content over the past couple of months, Even though I have been incredibly busy with various things, exams, travelling and what not. I have had opportunities to write, but haven't. I turned 19, finished my first year at university a couple of days ago, and honestly, the after-math is slightly anti-climatic. But here I am getting ready for my last tutorial of the year; and I just had to write.

It's funny how my last post was about the same topic, but in all honesty- TEMPTATION is probably, if not the biggest struggle in a Christians life, over time, things get better but as you are transformed and renewed daily [ROMANS12'2] there are always new element of yourself, new character traits that you didn't even know existed from the surface, that just creeps up on you and exposes itself at times of weakness.

For examples, if you have been struggling with anger, and you ask God for help and you physically see the change in character over that time, suddenly the sin of gluttony is exposed to you and it catches you completely un-aware.

I was watching a GAITHERVEVO youtube clip the other day from the Martins, and it was an epiphany that God has been working on me with for a long time, The song was called : SHUT DE DO -(- Shut the door). the lyrics goes like this: 'Shut de do, keep out de devil Shut de do, keep de devil in the night...' 

- And then it dawned on me. Most of us, meaning, myself like to leave 'the door' open. For example we like to relish on un-Godly thoughts on people , and rile up emotions of un-Godly character. By the time those thoughts want to turn into actions of anger and resent, we wonder why. Why are we feeling so aggressive, so weak and uncontrollable. It's because we didn't shut the door. 

The Bible says in 2CORINTHIANS10'15 that we must take every thought captive and make them obedient to Christ. That means, when bad thoughts enter into our minds, we should stop, take that thought in hand (without attachment) and make is conform, make it obedient to the word of God. Use the Scriptures, ask God for wisdom that His SPIRIT gives, and transform your world by the renewing of your mind. 

It's so important, because 'As a man thinketh in his heart, so is He.' [PROV23'7] - 

Who do you want to be . 

It's easier said than done, and I am far from having it all together but when we humble ourselves, we will receive grace - and grace is the ability that God gives us not to sin. JAMES 4'6

I'll leave you with this verse :

 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.