How faith changed my life

How faith changed my life!

I have been praying about writing this but God continues to place this on my heart.  I have been writing about experience in my past blogs about what God has put on my heart. Some people have asked me questions about how I can write and post things about God after the decisions I have made over the past year.  The first thing it’s not about me it’s about what God has done for me. Yes I have made some bad choices over the past year and not lived a life that I used to teach about. I am not proud of the things I have done or the people I have hurt, but those were choices that I made no one put a gun to my head. People have no idea of the cost that I deal with every day. I will tell you this there were things that I was doing that caused me to have cloudy thinking in my life.  However I take responsibility on my choices and don’t blame anyone but myself.  The life I was living was Empty religion. I was allowing the outside to look so clean but the inside was not clean at all. Think of this way if I was a cup the outside looked clean but the inside was full of mold and all kind of crap. When you live a life this way you can make things look good when they are truly not. I was not doing God any favors living this way. So if those people ask how could I preach the word but not live it the answer is I can’t. This is the reason I was dying inside and an unhappy person. But the question is how can I teach and post these things about God when I lived that life? It simple I allowed God take me as that cup that I was clean on the outside and dirty on the inside and wash it with his blood. God says if you come to him and ask he will allow it to happen. The question I asked was for him to forgive me and cleanse my from my sinful life that I was living and he did. The biggest challenge was for me to forgive myself and this is a work in progress. Look at Luke 11:39 “Jesus said now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and evil.” Yes this was me I was a acting like the Pharisees I was doing all the correct things outside and acting like I was following Gods laws but I was not and inside of me was dirty . So for you who ask how I can post these things I can because I have been washed by the blood of Christ. No I am not perfect at all I still struggle with sin and the choices that I made. I am the one who has to live the cost not you.

Who among us has sinned? All of us have sinned. But the good news is this: When we do ask for forgiveness and turn out hearts to God, He forgives us absolutely and completely. Yes our sins cost us know or later. Genuine repentance requires more than simply offering God apologies for our misdeed. Real repentance may start with feelings of sorrow and remorse, but it ends only when we turn away from the sin that has put God at a distance.  In truth, we offer our most meaningful apologies to God, not with our words but with our actions. Just as the people we hurt with our sins we have to show them our actions of sorrow not just our words. Repentance involves a radical change of heart and mind in which we agree with Gods evaluation of our sin and then take specific action to align ourselves with his will.