Chessie retrieved the frisbee last night for about an hour, so she slept like a log! I wore her out! We've been making some good progress with the obedience training, but she reminds me alot of myself ~ two steps forward and one step back. Last night when we were playing frisbee, she began chewing on it, while appearing to be getting ahold of it to bring it back. I was trying to be sensitive to the heat, she's not use to it; but she's taking advantage of that kindness to chew the frisbees up. Lol.
Aren't we like that sometime too? We know what God wants us to do, what's required of us, but still go ahead and do our own thing anyway, pushing His boundaries. We may ask for forgiveness, but find ourselves right back there again. I'm so thankful for God's grace. I can relate to Paul when he said, "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 nothing good lives 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 what I do is not the good I want to do; no, 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.
So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!" Romans 7:15-25
I really do desire to walk in obedience, but can find myself sabotaging my own desire. I'm so grateful for God's amazing love! For His understanding and forgiveness, but also for His discipline.
I lost 90 lbs. before Jim passed away, but am paying off some bills. I don't have the accountability with having a trainer or the gym and am struggling. I can relate to Chessie! Chewing up her frisbee she loses out! The same as I do in gaining this weight back. I covet your prayers! That God will help me do what I can't seem to do myself and get this turned around! I am grateful that God is the one that I can be confident in to carry me to completion!
Philippians 1:6
"Being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus."
I think I've helped Chessie, I found some hard frisbees on sale for a $1, she can't chew them up! They'll last alot longer hopefully than the others. I'm seeking God to get me mentally back where I need to be on this journey. My trainer said the stress of the loss would bring an inner tube around my waist again, but I sure would like to finish what I started. Chessie and I are a work in progress, but I've got a better trainer than she does!
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