Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Look Up

Here is an email sent to me and two other accounts relating to it.
  • Hey Aaron, I woke up this morning thinking about you and wondering how your spiritual walk is going. One of the shows on Disney (this is weird) came into my head while I was thinking about it and the main theme song is "get in the game". So today - let's do what we're supposed to do - look up.
  • Even though the Word warns us that these things will happen, it's never easy to see any form of suffering overtaking the innocent. Please join us in prayer today and remember to look up, for our only redemption, hope, and salvation comes from HIM.
  • There is a civil war waged between the new heart and the old nature. Romans 7–8 describes it quite well. Part of me doesn’t want to love my neighbor—not when his son just backed his car into my Jeep and smashed it up. I want to take the little brat to court. Part of me knows that prayer is essential; another part of me would rather turn on the TV and check out. And that whole bit about long-suffering—no way. Part of me wants to just get drunk. And that is the part I must crucify daily, give no ground to, make no alliance with. It’s not the true me (Rom. 7:22). It’s my battle with the flesh. We all know that battle well.