Saturday, April 10

Ah……something so basic and simple it’s almost embarrassing. Again.

I spend so much time thinking about my sin and disobedience and how hard it is to avoid those things. And how much I hate to keep being in that spot?

I was listening to Tim Kellers sermon on another topic and the answer is in the Gospels….of course. “If you love me, you will obey me”. I always heard that as judgement – “if you don’t obey me once, you don’t love me every” kind of thing. So I didn’t focus on it too much because it was unattainable, and I didn’t like the resultant judgement that I don’t love Jesus (since I can’t possibly be totally obedient). Am I making sense so far?

What I heard on Saturday was “if you sin, it’s because you are not loving me in that moment”. Because we can’t sin when we are loving Him. If we deliberately disobey, we either do so knowing that we will break His heart (thus not loving Him) or we don’t give Him a thought (thus not loving Him).

Bottom line: when I sin, it’s because I’ve taken my eyes off Him. Keeping Him first and foremost in my mind all-day-every-day is the goal. I’m going to add that to my list of things Jesus is to me: Brother, spiritual spouse, moment-by-moment companion,

Same song, 999^th verse. =) You know the one….

Keep your eyes upon Jesus,

Look full in His wonderful face…..

And the things of life will grow strangely dim

In the power of His wonder and grace.