GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY

II Timothy 2:25-26
In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves: if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the Truth; and that they may recover themselves out of the snares of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
Sometimes it seems like we just can’t get it together and that we are just not doing much right but we find that we are opposing ourselves. We must love our God with all of our being and our neighbors as ourselves yet how can we accomplish this if you don’t love yourself as you ought? The Lord doesn’t want us to put ourselves on a pedestal but He does want us to love ourselves because we are fearfully and wonderfully made. If you love yourself then you love what the Lord is doing in you as He continues to shape and mold you into who He has destined you to be. Sometimes we get in our own way and oppose ourselves and if this is the case then we oppose God because He is with us. Do not grieve the Spirit or quench the Spirit by going off and doing your own thing and leaning toward your own understanding. True humility requires hearing things that you don’t want to hear about yourself and crying out to God to change those things that doesn’t please Him so that He can get the complete Glory out of our life. His Glory He won’t give to another.
Let’s not allow the fear and intimidation of people or the cares of this life to interfere with the work that the Lord is doing and desires to do in your life. How do we oppose ourselves? We oppose ourselves when we don’t believe we’re worthy of God’s love. We oppose ourselves when we believe that things are fine and we can do things ourselves and that we’ve got the Lord all figured out.  We oppose ourselves when we keep one foot in the world in doubt as if you need a backup plan “just in case” the Lord doesn’t do what we want Him to do. We oppose ourselves when we rationalize sin believing that God “understands” instead of simply laying aside every weight and sin that does so easily beset us and asking Christ to remove it. The harvest is indeed plentiful yet the laborers are few. We oppose ourselves when we look for a harvest without doing any labor…with complete belief and in Holiness. There is a way that seemeth right to a man and the end is destruction.
Ezek 18:23
Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? sAith the Lord God: and not that He should return from His ways and live?
So let us get out of our own way lest we fall into the snares of the devil and the Lord puts us into position that we have to recover our ownselves. Sometimes we grieve the Spirit so much that it can barely operate on our behalf for whatever reason. Let’s not oppose ourselves but be one with the Lord so that He may do a complete work.

-a GOD CHASER