This week, i put on a pair of trousers for the first time since the beginning of June when I went to America for a couple of weeks. We seemed to bring the weather back with us, which seemed to delight the British population. But it's been so muggy that I am currently LOVING the rain. Rain is brilliant. If i'm honest, it's one of the things i miss most when out of England. Rain. Real rain. The rain that looks like fairies dancing.
However, the effects of a lot of rain, I am not a fan of. We are currently preparing for the Soul Survivor festivals. Three years ago, my camp site got flooded, and seeing as i will be camping for four of the festivals, i really hope that this doesn't happen again!
But isn't this just a typical example of how we live? We love the thing, but not the effects? I love chocolate and cake, but i don't love the belly it gives me! I love ben and jerrys, cheese and yoghurt, but being lactose intolerant, i do NOT appreciate the consequences when i give in to the temptation. I love rock climbing, but the next day is so painful, that i forget all the joy that it gave me.
I'm still trying to figure out when the consequences outweigh the joy of the moment. I know that when i give into temptations of this life, going against what God asks of us and 'live for the moment', i regret it so much. But why do i still do it?
The tongue twister in Romans 7 says it all:
I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
I'd quite like to change that.
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