"Oops! I did it again!" I bet you never thought as a Christian your theme song would be so Britney Spears heavy! You were doing so well when BOOM!! You've messed up again. It feels as if someone has snuck into your house just after you've tidied it and gone Family Guy chicken fight on it! You just got everything where you wanted it and now it's a mess again. What to do? What to do? The answer may well be in interior design.
2Corinthians 4:16 says - So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
Our first point is to not lose heart. It's easy to grab a silly hat and a party popper and join the pity party but hold your horses a second! If we start to understand that we are designed in a particular way on the inside (each of us different) we begin figuring why we fall into the cycles that so frustrate us. Many of us go for a long time trying to make certain things in our life work for us and wonder why everything else keeps collapsing.
It's kind of like when your friend gets some furiture or a painting that goes with nothing else in the house and they spend hours trying to find a good place for it. When they ask for your advice all you can hear in your head is the beeping of the binmen's truck! Or when someone who lives in a tiny house gets a gigantic television that means you have to turn your head to see who's talking to who! There's not enough room! Sometimes you just have to throw things out. Not because they're bad but because they don't suit your interior design.
Sometimes you need a sovereign act of God to destroy a sin cycle and sometimes you need to pay attention to interior design. The devil wants to decorate your interior with sin that he can hang shame and guilt on for the world to see and as a constant reminder to you that you're not good enough for God. If you do nothing, he'll just carry on. Broken promises are scattered around the house and every cupboard in the kitchen is made of cynicism with a rough, bitter finish. It's up to you to decide if you want to help him.
People have a tendency to delve deeper into sin once we've made a mistake because we want our interiors to match (and often we start trying to make our exterior match as well).
2Corinthians 4:16 says - So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
Our first point is to not lose heart. It's easy to grab a silly hat and a party popper and join the pity party but hold your horses a second! If we start to understand that we are designed in a particular way on the inside (each of us different) we begin figuring why we fall into the cycles that so frustrate us. Many of us go for a long time trying to make certain things in our life work for us and wonder why everything else keeps collapsing.
It's kind of like when your friend gets some furiture or a painting that goes with nothing else in the house and they spend hours trying to find a good place for it. When they ask for your advice all you can hear in your head is the beeping of the binmen's truck! Or when someone who lives in a tiny house gets a gigantic television that means you have to turn your head to see who's talking to who! There's not enough room! Sometimes you just have to throw things out. Not because they're bad but because they don't suit your interior design.
Sometimes you need a sovereign act of God to destroy a sin cycle and sometimes you need to pay attention to interior design. The devil wants to decorate your interior with sin that he can hang shame and guilt on for the world to see and as a constant reminder to you that you're not good enough for God. If you do nothing, he'll just carry on. Broken promises are scattered around the house and every cupboard in the kitchen is made of cynicism with a rough, bitter finish. It's up to you to decide if you want to help him.
People have a tendency to delve deeper into sin once we've made a mistake because we want our interiors to match (and often we start trying to make our exterior match as well).
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