Devotion 3

I came across Romans 7:18-20 as I was preparing for Bible Study, it tells that even if we have the desire to do what is good, we cannot carry it out because of the sins living in us.

There’s always a paradox of our humanness, we are both noble and ignoble, both rational and irrational, both moral and immoral, both creative and destructive, both loving and selfish, both Godlike and bestial… 'WE' are the battleground for the fight between good and evil.

Many times I do struggle to show goodness to the undeserving; it’s hard to be kind to the unkind and generous to the ungrateful. Even if I do, I get discouraged and drained easily, because my heart is not willing, it’s grumbling with discontentment.

We need less of ourselves and more of God. We are called to both self-affirmation and self-denial. Everything in us that is attributable to our creation in the image of God we should gratefully affirm, while everything in us that is attributable to the evil we must resolutely deny.

I realize that all three devotions I’ve written so far are more or less related to Spiritual warfare with our inner being. Indeed, the heart of human problem is the problem of human heart. With less of ourselves there is more of God. I thank the Lord for keep humbling me and encouraging me to fight the good fight.

Give thanks to the Lord for He is good, His love endures forever. – Psalm 107:1