SMART

I don’t think I will ever be able to figure out how people can be so smart and dumb at the same time. I do include myself in that process.

There just seems to be a part of human nature to be driven by our impulses. We get those darn cravings and it doesn’t matter what makes sense, we are going to appease them.

Then later the fun comes when we try to explain our motivation. Truth is there is no logic, it was pure lust.

Not meant in terms of just any type of erotic desires. Just lust for any needs. It becomes a candle you can’t extinguish.

But how we cope with it is the part that does matter. This is again an issue of faith. Because we can either trust to God’s grace and forgiveness or keep on making excuses.

For some reason we always seem to need to treat sin as bad. In the sense of evil. Meaning it is harmful or hurtful.

Yet the fact is by God’s standard anything we do that is not an act of faith is really considered a sin. At least according to Paul.

He did write, “for whatever is not of faith, is sin.” Basically it means that anything we do that is not an act of faith falls short in the Lord’s eyes.

It doesn’t have to be a bad deed. It just means it doesn’t count towards salvation based on faith.

I really think this is a message that honestly doesn’t get embraced by the church that much. Too many get hung up on works.

As if we can somehow stop being ourselves if we do enough good deeds. Which of course is not true.

And this doesn’t keep some from thinking so. Oh how they will peddle their version of wisdom.

Which is to imply that you can be sinless and never do a thing wrong again in your life. That hardly erases all the other sins of the past.

Nor is it true. But that is what some care to teach. It falls under that usual concept of how I can be lord over my own life.

Never is true and never will be. However, it is the reality, which we have to face. And we can do it either with His help or all alone.

I prefer grace to lies myself.