Well, here I am again writing about stupid things I should be passed by now. Believe it or not, I am still struggling with going back to my old sins. Sins that I should've just let go a long time ago.


Oddly enough, there was an almost dead fly on my bible this morning, so I opened the window to get it out. (This relates, I promise) I flicked it out, closed the window and tossed my Bible on the floor. About 10 minutes later (while cleaning my room), I realized that when I so carelessly through my Bible on the floor, it had opened and was faced down with pages that were probably wrinkling. I picked it up to realize it was opened to Ephesians 4. As it fit oh-so-perfectly to what I had been learning from God, I began to read picking up from verse 17:


"So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated form the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more. You, however, did not come to know Christ in that way. Surely you heard of Him and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds, and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness."


So much of the time, we keep finding ourselves going back to our foolish ways. We, as Christians should be better than that! We should be so madly in love with Jesus that we shouldn't even want to go back to those old sins! But are we? If not, why not?


It's because everyday when we have the choice to make to live by the world or of God we choose the world. We get so caught up in it and make ourselves think it's so good that we lose track of how completely amazing God is! We forget all He has done for us and what He's doing in us. But we are ignorant and think we know what's best for ourselves. Let me tell you something. We don't.


We need to learn to trust Him that He's really worth it. We need to wake up and get over ourselves. He knows what's best for us because He knows what's coming in the future.


So when you wake up in the morning and when you have to decide to follow Jesus or the world, what are you going to choose?