Morning Musings

MMMM a delicious shake and a chilly morning. The birds are chirping and the highway is buzzing. Leaves are falling in beautiful colors making their majestic tree owners look forlorn. Oh Hi, I'm so glad you have decided to join me in my morning musings, no matter what time it is on your side of the screen. I feel grateful to my Lord for allowing me another day to serve him in this life, while hoping that He will come for us soon to take us to that new Jerusalem. As seen in my last post I have been all at odds with myself and I find myself in sympathy with many passages of Paul's writing to the churches. So many times throughout his messages he refers to the conflict between flesh and spirit. But this morning one passage caught my eye in Philipians 4:10-13:
10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last your care for me has flourished again; though you surely did care, but you lacked opportunity. 11 Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: 12 I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
It seems to me as though Paul is saying that in spiritual things he is commanded to abound, to be full and fruitful, but in carnal, fleshly things to be abased, hungry, and to suffer need. What a fitting place to say "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." For without Christ I would miserably fail and never measure up to what my Father expects of me. So again I realize that I will constantly be in this limbo of thought and feeling but I will still be resolved to win the race. For it is not the failings that will get me there but the getting up that will help me win.