So often I find myself wanting to grow closer to God…wanting to change and I feel as if I…I just can’t! Why?! Why can’t I change? I want to…I’m trying to…
In chapel today the speaker gave us an example similar to this:
Let’s say I hate having creases in my pants. You know how some people iron this permanent crease right in the front of their pant leg? I hate that! Now let’s imagine that my mom decided one day that she was going to iron my pants…she’s not really paying much attention to what she’s doing, but I notice that she is ironing CREASES into my pants!! Reacting the complete wrong way, I get upset and tell her she is NEVER going to iron my pants again! (I’m sure she’d jump with joy.) The thing is…she will never get this ironing thing right until she thinks they way I do about creases. Not until she despises crinkles in pants the way I do will she iron pants the way I do.
Much the same way, not until we think the way God thinks about things will we be able to change. I need to hate sin the way God hates sin. Do you think the way God thinks about things?
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