Spritual Bling for my Peeps!

Romans 10:3 Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. 

God,

     Today I pray for your forgiveness. Not that this is the first time I’ve realized it, but I have completely ignored my calling because I was obsessedwith my own purity. I have had only an extreme interest in my own character. The most important thing is not how clean I can scrub my soul, or how white my spritual hightops are or can stay. It’s about you the redeemer and about your redemption. I should be pure for your sake and not for my own. Should proclaim your word so that you look good and to dangle some spiritual bling on my chest.

     You don’t call us as Christians to be Holy men and women, but to be your voice and proclaim the Gospel of God. I was putting my own redemption before your intentions as my redeemer. I was thinking of what you could do for me instead of what I could do for you.

     Personal holiness is an effect, not a cause, because you seperate me from darkness, I can’t seperate myself. You’re the candle and I am the candle bearer. I know it’s i,portant to be a clean vessel, but I now realsize that no one cares how clean the crystal is if there is no wine in it. “We are not of the flesh but of the spirit” has a whole new meaning to it. Ok God, I’ll read Romans again, thank you for helping me remember that one, my favorite.

Romans 8:25But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

 26In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.

Romans 10:3Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

4Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.

 5Moses describes in this way the righteousness that is by the law: “The man who does these things will live by them.”^[a]

6But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’^[b]” (that is, to bring Christ down)

7“or ‘Who will descend into the deep?’^[c]” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).

8But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,”^[d] that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming: 9That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

10For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.

11As the Scripture says, “Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”^[e]

12For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”