November 12, 2010

Wired for God

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Many believers are living with sexual addictions, fetishes, etc. They may try or attempt to live for God during the day (or at least in public) and then in the darkness, at night, or when no one is looking, they satisfy their tempting desires. They’re struggling between who they were and who they should become in Christ.

So what should they do?

Sadly, many of these addictions were forced upon them without they knowledge, understanding, or consent. They feel as victims to a crime they didn’t know was committed, yet, must live with the consequences. They want to be free. They want to live for God. However, those desires keep coming back. It seems that they’re wired for sin, while trying to live for God.

God has the power to do all things. Nothing is impossible for Him. If you’ve prayed for God to change you, keep praying (Luke 18:1-7). He is able to help you live for Him each day. You can be wired to live for God, but it will not come without a bit of dedication, focus, and desire from you.

When Paul was experiencing a thorn in his flesh, the messenger of Satan, he asked the Lord three times to remove it. Instead of removing it, God said that:

My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.

Paul made a decision to glory in his infirmities, that the power of Christ would rest upon him (2 Corinthians 12:8-10). He chose to take pleasure in his infirmities and reproaches, persecutions, and distresses for Christ sake. He understood that when he was weak, He would be made strong in Christ. Through his personal struggle, we have an example of someone that learned to live for God in spite of temptation (etc.).

You can be wired for God and live for Him. God loves you and gave His only Son so that you could live with Him eternally. He doesn’t want you to continue living in sin. He wants you to live in the light; to live in the freedom and grace Jesus died to give you.

Don’t believe that your temptations mean you’re not free or you can continue living in them. Temptations don’t mean that you’ve sinned…it’s what you do with those temptations that determine that.

2 Peter 3:9 – The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.