Let Your Yes be Yes - Always!
Posted in confession on Jun 17th, 2008 No Comments »
My Lord heard my confession of recognition that my yes has not been my yes, but no. Like His children, what starts as a promise to obey His command and follow in His ways, turns in the end to our evil ways where we drift from the lighted path into self-deception. My word has not been my bond. Sure it has been my bond when I chose for it to be so, but for work in my home like the daughter’s shower, and our shower, weeks and months have passed by with my endless excuses. What kind of God lives in me that my testimony is one of delays and broken promises. While my heavenly Father’s promises are faithful to the end and never fail. So the tail of woe is this:
This evening, while I was seated flicking through the pages of The Success Principles by Jack Canfield, I stopped (randomly - yeah right!) at Principle # 35, “99% is a Bitch, 100% is a Breeze”.
I was stopped in my tracks as I read “What a simple concept that is - yet you’d be suprised how many people wake up every day and fight with themselves over whether or not to keep their commitments, stick to their disciplines, or carry out their action plans. THE “NO EXCEPTION RULE”. Siuccessful people adhere to the “no-exception rule” when it comes to their daily disciplines. Once you make a 100% commitment to something, there is no exception. Its a done deal. Nonnegotiable. Cases closed. over and out”.
I was stopped in my tracks because, as I wrote later this evening, my word has not been my bond. My Yes has meant No. “If I want to”, I who?, If I want to? who is I? Christ I or Satan I?
“You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.” (1 John 4:4)
So My Lord has revealed this in me. And I say Woe is me Lord. But Lord you in me is greater than he who is in the world, so Lord I thank you that you forgive me my transgression and have already, as I take by faith, me, though let me not fall back into self deception my Lord.
For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith (Rom 12:3)
Forgive me my Lord that I have thought that I was invincible, but alas. I am man and You alone are God. The forgiving God who grace and mercy are always there for those who come forward and seek forgiveness which you grant without questions, and remember my sin no more. Lord thank you for breath itself, that Christ in me, is the hope of glory. That your daily breath and life compel me to recognize my sin and accept your forgiveness and look to a new day together.
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