Don't ignore convictions that accompany your shame
I'm a different person because of what I went through during bootcamp and the different training I attended afterward. During that time I didn't have the liberty of Bible study or personal discussion like I had for years here at home. Of the hundreds of Marines I met, only two were Christians who walked the walk.
Looking at myself I can recognize the changes and I am aware of when I stray from the path of light. I'm cockier than I've ever been and I can get short tempered if I'm not keeping myself in check. I trust that my brothers and sisters in Christ can feel the same thing in themselves, the Holy Spirit does indwell us.
With that in mind I want to say we should be ashamed of ourselves. What I see in my life, my compromises and the compromises I see among the brethren is detestable. Where is the fervency we once hold? Are we so weak to leave our Jesus, set our cross down and jump back into the world again? What shame we bring upon ourselves. Christ died to free us from the bonds of our sin (and the punishment that they come with), not to grant us immunity and the freedom to carry on in our own ways.
Lights unto the world reveling in darkness, my God may we hear Your rebuke and return to You.
Looking at myself I can recognize the changes and I am aware of when I stray from the path of light. I'm cockier than I've ever been and I can get short tempered if I'm not keeping myself in check. I trust that my brothers and sisters in Christ can feel the same thing in themselves, the Holy Spirit does indwell us.
With that in mind I want to say we should be ashamed of ourselves. What I see in my life, my compromises and the compromises I see among the brethren is detestable. Where is the fervency we once hold? Are we so weak to leave our Jesus, set our cross down and jump back into the world again? What shame we bring upon ourselves. Christ died to free us from the bonds of our sin (and the punishment that they come with), not to grant us immunity and the freedom to carry on in our own ways.
Lights unto the world reveling in darkness, my God may we hear Your rebuke and return to You.