Psalms 139:16

Gal 2:18- For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. Paul said that he does what he doesn't want to do and doesn't do what he knows he should do. I find myself there too. More often than not. Those things that I am convicted in my heart as wrong, dead wrong, I find myself doing. In realizing it, I don't even stop. What does that make me other than guilty, sad, and sorry. It makes me a transgressor. A sinner. Those sins that I once tore down with the declaration that I would never walk that line again, I build those very sins up if I keep on doing it, after the fact. It doesn't end there however, because (20) "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me" Everyday, every moment, every second in a life drenched in sin, I MUST remember that I am DEAD to this life as I...

Deuteronomy 7:21-23 "You shall not be terrified of them; for the Lord your God, the great and awesome God, is among you. And the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you little by little...But the Lord your God will deliver them over to you, and will inflict defeat upon them until they are destroyed" God will drive those troubles from our lives cause vs 21 says He is your God. That claim that He is ours comes from God directly, He is your God. The great and awesome things God did and does can be obtained in our lives because of the fact that He is ours. He is OUR God. When trouble rushes into our lives and stubborn situations seem like they cannot change; answers are not found and solutions are far from reach, the great and awesome God is our God. The God who healed the blind and the lame, He is our God. The One who gave wisdom to a naive Solomon, He is our God. The One who turned made the sea a road for the Israelites, He is our God! He is our God, who heals ...