Highs -n- Lows Living with the Disease

Friday, July 5th

Another beautiful morning.  I hope everyone is having a safe 4th of July weekend. 

We are staying home to get some thing done around the house this weekend.  So much to do :-)

Today Christine, Kaylee and I are running over to Faribault to eat with grandmas. :-) We were out of town last week so we didn't make our weekly trip over to see them.

I was reflecting again on how I may have gotten to this point???  I was told it is usually brought on by cancer or trauma to the body.  They checked all over and found no cancer. So trauma???

I remember a few years back when I was at work running upstairs and slipped. I landed on my kneecaps...oh my gosh did it hurt.  I was out recovering for several weeks after that fall ??? 

Or could it be a complication from the mesh that was put in me during my hernia operation.  I have been told recently it needed to be repaired again. ????

Well Monday I run up to the U of M to find out what I have, how far the progression and how I will be treated. :-)

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Today's Bible Study

Conviction or Condemnation

Read | Romans 8:1-2

Sometimes it’s easy even for believers to become confused, because emotions can be very tricky. For this reason, it is unwise to trust feelings or base our decisions upon them.

But what about those times when you are unsure? You can probably recall periods when you thought you were sensing conviction from the Holy Spirit but wondered whether it might instead be condemnation from the Enemy. There is a difference between emotion and true conviction, which means an awareness of wrongdoing (John 16:7-8). The Holy Spirit prompts conviction of sin as an expression of His love because He wants to keep you on the right path. One sure way to distinguish conviction by the Holy Spirit is that He will always identify something specific (Ps. 51:3-4; Luke 22:60-62). God won’t hesitate to put His finger on whatever is outside of His will.

Conversely, the Enemy will try to inspire feelings of condemnation and guilt by whispering something like, “You call yourself a Christian? You’re a poor excuse for somebody who claims to be one of God’s children.” The Enemy wants you so weighed down that you become ineffective for the Lord. When believers listen to that deceitful voice, they can become incapacitated by the untruths from the Father of Lies.

The Holy Spirit uses conviction positively—to warn against danger or lovingly nudge an erring believer back onto the course the Lord designed for his or her life. Thankfully, this is one of God’s unceasing acts of love.

Another great day!