Day 16

Derrick


my tatoo on my arm reads the verses Psalm 16:2, and Romans 7:18

Psalm 16:2 “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.”

Romans 7:18 " For I know that nothing good dwells in me"
(but i stopped i didnt finish verse 18), it continues to say

that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God,in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

these verses have been troubling to me, while i want to do what is right i know that evil lies close at hand... verse 24 asks a question, Who will deliver me from this body of death?

25 brings it all together....Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!

Jesus is the answer to my problems, He is the one that can help me die to the flesh daily... oh I pray that He gives me the grace to continue, but do I ask for grace so that I can live in the flesh? NO, CERTAINLY NOT, MAY IT NEVER BE...
Christ is my all, He is my identity, He is my Savior, He is the one who helps me in everything He would have me do, He guides my life and keeps me safe. He provides a way out of temptation. His way is what I desire.

Vaya con Dios (Go with God)




Kayla-


Psalm 16:5, "The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup." He is all that I want and fulfilling and satisfying. I have nothing of worth a part from Him. 

We read today and yesterday, that this verse was also true for Abraham. When Sarah died, they called him one of God's princes. They wouldn't let him pay for a cave for her to be buried, they gave him the cave and the field along with it, they knew God was his chosen portion and his cup. The Lord continued to provide for Abraham. Let this verse be true in all of our lives, and he will be our portion and our cup, providing for our needs, fully.

Blessings.