The emptiness of our hearts tempts us to continue the vicious cycle of seeking God-substitutes to fill the void. Loneliness invades.
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Doubt arises when we choose to not find Christ relevant. To believe or not to believe that is truly the question. The choice is yours.
(excerpts from Desperate Dependency by J. Kirk & Melanie D. Lewis) Those who choose to receive God’s truth and enter into Christ’s redemptive process will move to repentance. Repentance is that place where we turn from our philosophy of self-centeredness to Christ-centeredness. It is opting to live and do life God’s way and giving up our self-sufficiency. Those who continue in deception may attempt a ritual of repentance. With no true heart change, they may go through the motions commonly deemed consistent with repentance such as crying, revealing sinfulness, asking for forgiveness, going to the altar, making promises to be different, or even a renewed religious fervor. But these actions are merely playing “good” as these individuals attempt to feign something they do not possess. They are not actually seeking to be free from the domination of sin, but merely free from the consequences of their sin. Deceptive individuals hope […]