Keep On Striving!
I can’t do it and it is so frustrating. I learn all the time and hear all the time that we should praise the Lord all the time, but I can’t and don’t. Does that mean that I have not “arrived” as a believer? Does that mean that I am not pleasing to God? No it does not. We try. We push to do as much as we can consciously do for God, but it is still not ALL. I know there is Grace. God dispensed Grace into our existence to bridge our inadequacies to God’s perfection, but that does not erase our innate human desire to be perfect, which we cannot.
Therefore, I am torn between what I want to be and what I am.
In the meantime I will declare. Even when I know that I am not on point I will declare the point to which I aspire. This actualizes my hope. This realizes my strength. This moves me Godward! It doesn’t matter what is going on…I will bless the Lord! It doesn’t matter how broken I feel…I will bless the Lord! It doesn’t matter how confused I may be…I will bless the Lord! It doesn’t matter how many mistakes I have more or how many times I have fallen…I WILL BLESS THE LORD! I will speak it. I will believe it. I will live it!!!!!!
