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"Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes!"
Psalm 119.5
 

    Remember what high hopes you had when you signed up for that gym membership?  Sure, you were impressively motivated to shave off extra pounds and regain youthful vim and vigor.  But within a few months you became a slacker; your trips to the treadmill slipped into mere mental reminders whenever the monthly bill came due.  You still paid it, of course, although your high hopes seemed overrun by your feelings of guilt.

 

   When God's Spirit motivates us through His Word, we are filled with high hopes of keeping all that He says we should do.  As we grow in awareness of His love pured out for us in Jesus Christ, we are driven by joyful enthusiasm to keep God's statutes.  We know that His ways are always good for us and pleasing to Him. 

 

   Sadly, though, our resolute resolves fade as pressures of our natural instincts toward selfishness and pride push God's will beneath our own in order of our priorities.  What once was our heart's desire, keeping God's statutes, seem simply wishful thinking.  Is all lost?  No, not when the Spirit of Christ is continuously refreshing our souls.  Just as God, in Jesus Christ, forgives our failures repeatedly, so God is working within us to renew is in fervent desire to love Him and keep His Word. 

   

                                                                  Jesus Bless you!

                                                                                   Pastor Barth

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