What a beautiful day it is today! I was thinking to myself and asking, do i know what it feels like to be darkened in understanding and to be separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in me due to the hardening of my heart? Its scary thinking of being in that kind of state. Right now I feel pretty stiff. I feel that my desire for the greater life promised by God is out of sight and out of reach. Sometimes I find myself stuck in the underbelly of secular living.
I am looking for a sort of revival in me that comes only by indulgence in the Spirit. In verse 21 Paul says that "you were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. You were taught with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness." Its difficult sometimes when you feel like you are at the pinnacle of the joy of freedom from the world and at the blink of an eye you find yourself reverting back to the old self. I can't emphasize enough that we, I, need to be grounded in the Truth. We cannot find our faith in the pastor, the fellowship, absent minded reading scripture or prayer, but we can find it only in Christ Jesus who allows us to see the Father. This is a difficult concept for me to understand fully yet because I have been raised in the Christian lifestyle, at times unable to separate my faith from others' faiths. I need to be steadfast in my search and walk in Christ; His way.
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