Conviction vs. Condemnation
It’s interesting to me how satan knows the Believer’s weaknesses. It seems like he’s always trying to find a way to bring me down, discourage me, remind me of how far I have to go instead of allowing me to focus on how far I’ve come but you know what? Scripture refers to him as the deceiver. It’s true I still have much to learn and many ways to grow but God is not heaping condemnation on me and His opinion should be the only one that matters.
The Holy Spirit will convict but not condemn a Believer. Conviction should bring repentance and a faith-filled moving on. If you are walking around with your head down, not feeling faith that you will ever change, that is the enemy. He desires you to live that way so that you can’t be effective and you probably won’t change because you allow yourself to believe that lie.
Lift up your head and ask God to show you how He sees you. He may show you areas that He desires to do a work in but there will be a thanksgiving that He is still working on you. There’s comfort in the fact that God loves you enough to not leave you as you are but when you take a step backward, fall on your knees, ask God for forgiveness and get up determined to move forward and hold to God’s unchanging hand. You can live a victorious Christian life. Don’t let satan tell you otherwise.
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