There's sadness in my heart,
I'm trying to figure it out...
Why I don't stand the ground,
I give up when I shouldn't...
My heart seem to get adamant
despite recieving the Touch
of HIS tender love.
Why do I act stubborn,
always wanna do as I WILL.
Like sheep walking on its own way
I act as my will says.
What a war it is!
between YOUR will and mine.
With every battle
I discover
Your Will is perfect
MY will is incomplete.
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I'm trying to figure it out...
Why I don't stand the ground,
I give up when I shouldn't...
My heart seem to get adamant
despite recieving the Touch
of HIS tender love.
Why do I act stubborn,
always wanna do as I WILL.
Like sheep walking on its own way
I act as my will says.
What a war it is!
between YOUR will and mine.
With every battle
I discover
Your Will is perfect
MY will is incomplete.
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This ongoing battle is part of every Christians' life, battle between HIS HOLY WILL and My Will. I am amazed at the freedom that Christ has given me, HE knows that I, a feeble human, can never make right choices, decisions unless its under HIS guidance but still HE CHOOSES to give me my Free Will...He loves me so much that HE wants me to discover HIS unconditional love and cherish it forever.
Being a student of Political Science, I have always asked the Lord, "Why not just DICTATE YOUR WILL because I know I am just not good at walking on the way You have shown. I always deviate from The Way, so why not follow dictatorship form of government in my life."
Being a student of Political Science, I have always asked the Lord, "Why not just DICTATE YOUR WILL because I know I am just not good at walking on the way You have shown. I always deviate from The Way, so why not follow dictatorship form of government in my life."
I sense somewhere in my small brain where HE lets me know in HIS own way, WHY NO DICTATORSHIP but DEMOCRACY...of HIS love :-) He loves me so much that HE wants me to discover, taste and experience HIS love and out of free will, surrender my throne and let HIM be the KING... "So if the SON makes you free, you will be free indeed." (John8:36) Once I have tasted HIS love I become love slave not out of compulsion but free will knowing well that the Master's Will for me is , its for my greater good even when circumstances portray just the opposite.
Walking in love with Jesus is not easy, it's challenging. It challenges standards that I have set based on so called 'my learnings, my experiences', I'm always reminded of Whom I have chosen to follow- JESUS and HIS standards. We can look into our hearts and find our standards similar to those of Scribes and Pharisees but here is JESUS who has set us Standards of love.
John 4:34 "Jesus said to them, 'My food is to do the will of Him who sent me and to complete His work.' "
Matthew 16: 24 "Then Jesus told His disciples, 'If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their Cross and follow me."
Matthew 26:44 "So leaving them again, He went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same words (My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; Yet not what I want but what You want.)."
Luke 23:34 "Then Jesus, 'Father forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.' "
Luke 23:42 "He replied (to the good thief) 'Truly I tell You, today you will be with me in Paradise.' "
At the end of all this all I am left with is: If I love JESUS, I will keep HIS commandments.
Walking in love with Jesus is not easy, it's challenging. It challenges standards that I have set based on so called 'my learnings, my experiences', I'm always reminded of Whom I have chosen to follow- JESUS and HIS standards. We can look into our hearts and find our standards similar to those of Scribes and Pharisees but here is JESUS who has set us Standards of love.
John 4:34 "Jesus said to them, 'My food is to do the will of Him who sent me and to complete His work.' "
Matthew 16: 24 "Then Jesus told His disciples, 'If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their Cross and follow me."
Matthew 26:44 "So leaving them again, He went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same words (My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; Yet not what I want but what You want.)."
Luke 23:34 "Then Jesus, 'Father forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.' "
Luke 23:42 "He replied (to the good thief) 'Truly I tell You, today you will be with me in Paradise.' "
At the end of all this all I am left with is: If I love JESUS, I will keep HIS commandments.
"You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servants does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made know to you everything that I have heard from MY FATHER."
John 15:14-15
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