Reflections.....

Sometimes, we give ourselves time, or do we ever give ourselves time to look into the spiritual mirror?

Well, there are those times when I do look into that mirror and i wonder, does my physical self speak anything of my spiritual being?

From the way I dress, eat, speak, walk, interract?

Each time I am confronted by the reality that half the time my physical being does not correspond with the desires of the spiritual.

However, I am glad that i do take time to make a reflection, because through this, I can work on making me a better somebody.

a friend of mine, through his own reflections of what had happened on a particular day, sent me a message on my phone that "each moment is a potential to make us better or worse people".

I thought that was deep!

So I have decided to make each day a day for growth. You see, we do take our small actions for granted but once we make these small excuses, we might get used to them and forget that its wrong.

The thoughts of Paul really did strike me the other day. It is one chapter when Paul looks into the spiritual mirror and sees the inadequacies presented by the physical well-being.

It was a point that he saw the reflections of his life in comparison with the Spiritual well-being. What he believed in and what he was striving to achieve in his life. In as much as he was proclaiming the omnipotence and greatness of god, he still had to look at himself to see if what he was speaking was what he was living by.

I now realise what he was talking about. I now understand were he was coming from.

Even Christians of today need to do that. It is only after an evaluation that we are able to grow, both spiritually and physically.

Here is the Chapter that did strike me on reflections;-

Romans 7 (King James Version)

1Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

2For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

3So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

4Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

5For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

6But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

9For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

10And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

12Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

13Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

15For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

16If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

17Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

18For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

19For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

20Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

21I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

25I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.