Yall just taking a minute to get real. Sin is easy. As easy as drinking water. Reading Colossians 3:8-10 tonight feeling the heat.
Now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
I can get angry with the best of them.
And rage…road rage, mom rage, work rage, wife rage, rage-rage, take your pick I’ve gotten it.
Malice, meh not my thing.
Slander, I mean gossip is slander so, shame. Been there and done that, try to hang it up or switch the topic when I catch myself in it.
Filthy Language, 20-something Emily was the worst, 30-something Emily had a way better handle on this area of life. Still, it can slip from time to time when my foot finds a certain red stool in the middle of the night or a lovely little toy that attacks the underside of my foot.
Lie’s, Lord love my imperfections and help me abandon my ways. Y’all I lie to my children the most. Mom, are you eating chocolate? No. Mom, what’s in your mouth? Uh broccoli, look away. Mom what happened to (insert toy here) you must have left it somewhere sweetie sorry…so on and so forth. AND I just grounded our 6-year-old for lying. Maybe I need to go to a time-out.
My point is we are human we aren’t perfect. Check your heart. I’ve put a lot of work into myself to be a person I want my children to look up to. It’s not like I was a horrible person that needed lots of work. But I was a selfish person that did what I wanted to do and didn’t always think about the consequences or how it would affect others in my life. Until I realized no matter what I did I was still never happy I was still missing something (Jesus) and ever since He’s come back into my life, it doesn’t mean I’ve done a 360 and am a perfect peppy people person. However, it means I wake up every day and try to navigate life in a way that makes my heart happy and my soul sing! And it affects the people around me for the better! So yes Colossians 3:8-10 is convicting but if it wasn’t, that’s when I should be worried. I’m broken by nature, but I’m whole with God. I don’t wake up and say Jesus died on the cross so I can get angry, be slanderous and lie my day away. I wake up and say today is a new day Lord teach me patience, love, and forgiveness! Jesus friend of Sinners, break my heart for what breaks yours ❤