July 5, 2007
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Resolved
I’ve been working daily on the Bible Memory verses and really enjoy their program. (www.biblememory.us) If my children still lived at home I would copy off each days scripture and let them fill in the blanks. They can customize the verses to fit your needs. Each day they also offer one of Jonathan Edwards Resolutions. There hasn’t been one resolve so far that I haven’t benefitted by. The fun part is trying to match up scripture to go with the resolution. Only the Word of God can be trusted to be 100% accurate.
8. Resolved, to act, in all respects, both speaking and doing, as if nobody had been so vile as I, and as if I had committed the same sins, or had the same infirmities or failings as others; and that I will let the knowledge of their failings promote nothing but shame in myself, and prove only an occasion of my confessing my own sins and misery to God.
Well, I can honestly say that I do not make this a regular practice. How blind I can be to my own sin and magnify the sin of my brother or sister in Christ. Paul considered himself the CHIEF of all sinners. Do I? Nope, not most days! My vision is blurred oftentimes from the reality of my own sin. Not until I face the mirror of God’s Word do I see myself for what I really am.
Comments (7)
Amen to that. It’s certainly a matter of beams and splinters in our eyes, isn’t it? Thanks for posting this. As always, I’m encouraged after reading your posts.
need to see this often, i sure have a way of deceiving myself into thinking “i am not that bad”…ouch
I need to commit to checking out that program. In fact, I resolve to check it out tonight!
I’ve never read Jonathan Edwards. What are these resolutions he made? Is there a story to them, that you happen to know?
Yes, I think most Christians would say, “Guilty!” We take comfort in thinking we aren’t “as bad.” My husband I went through some things many years ago, and I always put it on him. He was the one who had to “get right.” I was a little snob! And, isn’t it NOT surprising that once I saw that my “little” sins were the same as his “big” sins, things started to change for him—and us.
I still fall into that trap, of course, mostly with other women. (Why are we women so hard on each other?)
Thanks for sharing this and reminding me to put it back on my To Do List. The last time (first time) you shared this site, I bookmarked it right away, but that was as far as I got.
God bless you!
Caroline
That’s powerful.
Thanks for that link.
Heather
Wow! Isn’t that the truth. “Well, I would never do THAT! I know I sin, but really, now….” That’s a more common attitude for me to have. What a good reminder that I’m just as bad a sinner as anyone else.
Hi Georgene,
I checked out the site and I signed up. I already memorized my verse for today. Thank you very much for sharing. I used other programs before. Let’s see if this is better for me.
I don’t have a car to drive but I will know how much the shipping is by tomorrow or the next day. My daughter loves her purse that she bought from one of the ladies.
You have a nice day.