Under Construction!

I went the the women's conference this weekend and was totally blessed to be there. We studied Colossians, in the 3rd chapter it talks about what we need to take off and what we need to put on. we are Under Construction and in my opinion we always will be. We need to have the habit of trusting God by being rooted in our faith....when we develop this habit and an OH NO situation arises it will be easier to just give it to God and let Him deal with it. I believe the path to trusting God starts when we seek the things of God and set our minds on them and not the things of this very ungodly BA-BALONY world. It gives a not so nice list of what we need to put to death for instance and only to name a few impurity, evil desire, covetousness and a few others. Wow sinner nature sure is a doozy but, there is more we must also put away from us the things we practice such as....anger, wrath, malice, slander and cussing (paraphrasing here). Putting on our new self will take practice as well but, it will also take us making the choice to allow God to do His work in us. The new "clothes" are compassion, kindness, humility, meekness and patience (do not forget DO NOT ask for those.) we must also forgive each other as God forgives us 70x7 everyday, above everything else we need to LOVE. Love is a choice we do not always feel it, when we love whether we want to or not it will bind us together in perfect harmony. The conference was called Decisions Decisions and we need to make some, God is calling us to Him and with that call is the need to heed His word. When we do yes, the enemy will rise up against us and throw EVERYTHING he has at us, he will try to discourage us and hurt us. Even with all of that, with God and the love of our brothers and sisters in Christ, standing united we will fight against the devil and he will flee. Habits are hard to break because, we have practiced them for so long. The new habits must be practiced with the same diligence the old ones were, we will fall there is no doubt about that therefore that is why we will always be Under Construction (again just my opinion).

That's my thought for the day,

Crazy for Christmas