Except for a detail: I forgot to cancel an InterContinetal Hotel Booking, totaling $2043.
Now I prayed for redemptionn, a partial refund of $1000.00. I am responsible for the first night, due to no-show. God please rescue my lack of wisdom.
Hopefully, the drama of such "absurdity" serves to do me good: remember Tracy said I don't take God's calling serious enough? Taking things serious means dive in and stay with the details of ups and downs.
Chapter 6 of the Maturity Book focuses on "The Problem of Sin".
in my case, a sin of ommision.
Introduction of Chapter 6:
New Christians, for instance with Ellel, are often encouraged to take heart of memory verses that cover:
- Forgiveness
- Assurance
- Guidance
- Coseration
- Obedience
- Turnning away from sin wheever and wheneer it sufaces in my life
How to keep my way pure and free from sin?
God provides a veariety of instruments to bring me to maturity:
- The word of God
- The indewellinng presence and ministry of the Holy Spirit
- The preaching and teaching of Scripture
- The various ministries of the fellowship of Christians
- The privilege of prayers
- The blessings of worship
- The service I render to the world in evangelism and compassion
Shuyi is quite alighned with Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)'s writing:
At a later stage in his life, Augustine wrote about his continuing sinfulness:
Sow a thought and you reap an action;Sow an act and you reap a habit;Sow a habit and you reap a characterr;Sow a character and reap a destiny.But my innner world is more aligned with Augustine:
At a later stage in his life, Augustine wrote about his continuing sinfulness:
I have become a puzzle to myself: he was simply repeating the crri de coeur that he read in Paul: "Who will deliver me from this body of death? (Rom 7:24)My experiences have been rather too frequent:
How can I keep my heart and hands clean in a polluted world? For instance free from masturbation and erotic thoughts
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