James 1:
"Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says."
This year's lent is hitting me hard... in a good way. i am feeling so deconstructed now, so weak and feeble. my heart is so wrenched with my own soul's poverty and the realization that i utterly need God. nothing i have, on my own- done in my own strength- is of any value. my failings are becoming more apparent as the days go on.
1 Corinthians 12
"To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong."
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