Why do I want to fix it? Because I think I can.
Why do I think I can? Because I've been there, done that.
Have you been exactly where that person is? Well, No, Not EXACTLY.
Who fixed you? Um?, myself? No, wait, the Holy Spirit.
How? Through books, other people.
When? I saw the inside instead of the outside when I looked in the mirror.
Why? I didn't like what I saw.
Who showed you your true self? Holy Spirit.
It wasn't a friend nagging you? No!
You see, I want to boast that I fixed myself so that gives me right to fix someone else but as we can see from my conversation with God this morning that the reality is it took the moving of the Holy Spirit within me to change me. The only way I can change is from the inside out and I have no clue how to do that except to pray...
ALOT!
I'm reading this book called All of Grace by C.H. Spurgeon, he quotes, "It would be very wonderful if one could stand at the foot of Niagara Falls and speak a word that would make the Niagara River begin to run upstream and leap up that great precipice over which is now rolls down with stupendous force. Nothing but the power of God could achieve that marvel. Yet that would be more than a fit parallel to what would take place if the course of your nature were altogether reversed."
"Photo of Niagara Falls, taken from the Maiden Mist by me, last July"
It's by the grace of God that I am who I am today, not perfect, but I've come along way....ooops, I mean Jesus has drug me along way, kicking and screaming, to be at a better place today.
So, why do I think or expect someone else to change because I give a pretty darn good argument and speak truth?
Just like married people can't change their spouses, I can' change anybody either. All I can do is pray that the Holy Spirit will change me and my heart.
"God has united you with Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made him to be wisdom itself. Christ made us right with God; he made us pure and holy, and he freed us from sin. Therefore, as the Scriptures say, "If you want to boast, boast only about the Lord."" 1 Corinthians 1:30-31 (NLT)
Living Loved,
Elizabeth
