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The world just keeps you at an arms length
And every week you work up the strength
To fight the flames that are hurled:
Let your faith shine right through
You know it's the world versus Jesus and you
Jesus loves the outcasts
He loves the ones the world just loves to hate
And as long as there's a heaven,
There will be a failure to excommunicate
Failure to excommunicate.
Wow. I'm spiritually exhausted and yet... so on fire. I can't help noticing that I'm closest to God in the darkest of times...
Things might seem like they're going great on the surface...But there truly is a battle inside me. I feel it. Although "feel" doesn't explain... I can physically feel the tension....the war between my flesh and spirit. The flesh, the part corrupt by human nature and the spirit, the part which desires to worship Christ in all things. I guess I've never realized how incredibly weak I actually am...
But only when I'm perplexed and my mind grieves over this war am I strengthened...not only by awareness...but making my supplications to God- even after doubts- I know He hears me.
And how refreshing are His words...water cleansing my gaping wounds.
"For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God- through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin."
-=Romans 7:22-25=-