Vices are things that keep us from reaching our full potential. It's defined as a fault, defect, or shortcoming. Scripture tells us that we all fall short. For those of you who think you don't have a vice and you're just the perfect man or the perfect woman, that's your vice right there! Pride, in the wrong doses and applied incorrectly is a terrible thing. If you really think that you have no vices, that means you are faultless. The only person faultless was God! I mean I doubt you're calling yourself God. Then again, I gotta watch who I say that to... they just might!
I'm not going to go through all of my vices on here. Not because the list may or may not be too lengthy, or because I'm embarrassed of my vices, but because I dealing with God on my vices. I got bunches wrong wit me, and some of which only God can deliver me from. Here's what I did. I made a list of things that I wanted to work on. I thought on areas where I was very rough around the edges. I had to be honest and confess myself to myself. I had to confront me and tell me that I wasn't correct and that I had the potential to do better. Once I completed the list, I saw which things I had to do myself. Then, I identified the things that I would need help accomplishing. These things will either need some one's assistance or a divine intervention.
Another definition for vice would be a clamp to hold something down or to grip something. The vices that we have can literally take control of you and hold you down. You could quite possible say that vices are strongholds even. They are things that can weigh you down and afflict you if you let them. They keep you from going where you need to go and prevent you from being all you can be. They hinder you from performing at your highest potential. You gotta break those strongholds and come out of those vices. Galations 5:1 tells you to stand in the freedom he has given us. Freedom from those things that seem high and heavy. Freedom from those things that are stacked against us. Stand in Jesus and in that freedom and you will notice how free you can be.
This is a public service announcement. "Consider your ways." Find out what your weak areas are and buff out those wrinkles. We are always to be bettering ourselves, right? So, lets do just that and put some kind of plan into motion. Remember, you don't have to let anyone know about what you're working on. It's between you and the Good Lawd! Be mindful. Everyone doesn't need to know your business! "Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways." Keep on working on God's temple, which is you! Remember you CAN do all things through Christ who strengthens you to do so.
Continue to be Blessed
I'm not going to go through all of my vices on here. Not because the list may or may not be too lengthy, or because I'm embarrassed of my vices, but because I dealing with God on my vices. I got bunches wrong wit me, and some of which only God can deliver me from. Here's what I did. I made a list of things that I wanted to work on. I thought on areas where I was very rough around the edges. I had to be honest and confess myself to myself. I had to confront me and tell me that I wasn't correct and that I had the potential to do better. Once I completed the list, I saw which things I had to do myself. Then, I identified the things that I would need help accomplishing. These things will either need some one's assistance or a divine intervention.
Another definition for vice would be a clamp to hold something down or to grip something. The vices that we have can literally take control of you and hold you down. You could quite possible say that vices are strongholds even. They are things that can weigh you down and afflict you if you let them. They keep you from going where you need to go and prevent you from being all you can be. They hinder you from performing at your highest potential. You gotta break those strongholds and come out of those vices. Galations 5:1 tells you to stand in the freedom he has given us. Freedom from those things that seem high and heavy. Freedom from those things that are stacked against us. Stand in Jesus and in that freedom and you will notice how free you can be.
This is a public service announcement. "Consider your ways." Find out what your weak areas are and buff out those wrinkles. We are always to be bettering ourselves, right? So, lets do just that and put some kind of plan into motion. Remember, you don't have to let anyone know about what you're working on. It's between you and the Good Lawd! Be mindful. Everyone doesn't need to know your business! "Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways." Keep on working on God's temple, which is you! Remember you CAN do all things through Christ who strengthens you to do so.
Continue to be Blessed
