Keepsake #47

What is it that I do? This question makes me pause. Who I am and what I do tend to be in conflict. 

“For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.  Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law;  but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.” Romans 7:19-21

Living out part of my uniqueness brings God glory, and living out another part of it will prevent others from seeing God. 

I can embrace my uniqueness. And as I do, God leads me to doing what is right, in spite of how I feel. The day I said “Jesus is Lord” is the day I chose to be set apart and turn to God. 

Sometimes I feel worn out from speaking to myself; but God reminds me to keep going.

“By the way, today, God, I chose to embrace my uniqueness and share it to build others for your glory.” Written April 21, 2019. 

 To God be the glory!

“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” Galatians 2:20