1 Peter 4: 3 “For you have spent enough time in the past doing what the pagans choose to do- living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.”
My Sweet Lord, You know that when I was a pagan, I was involved in drunkenness a couple of times and lust some, but thankfully not these other things listed. I realize that I was blessed by being kept from those, but also realize that I certainly am not above those who did/ do. The sins I did commit were enough to send me to hell for eternity and only by Your grace I was saved. I lived in that self absorbed lifestyle. Only after You saved me and became Lord of my life did I start to become selfless to the point where I would be willing to suffer, even for doing right, as Your testimony to the unbeliever and the encouraging of other saints is now more important to me than my life. Time spent in that lifestyle was altogether wasted.
Lord, help me to live for others and not myself anymore at all. Only when I do am I blessed and can be a blessing to others and You. I praise You for the changes You have made in me, but I still have a very long way to go. Help me to never give up fighting the good fight. I want more than anything else in life for You to be able to say to me at the end of this journey, “Well done, my good and faithful servant.”
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