From The Crucible (by Assoc. Pastor Linda Pugsley)

Sometimes in our struggle with the sins that so easily beset us…the envy, anger, bitterness, the outbursts, jealousy, gossip, slander, etc., we struggle with the struggle! It’s a sticky predicament that Satan wants to happen over and over. But God has made a way out of this struggle…it is the risen life of Jesus in us. As we pray and praise, forgive and repent, seek and seek and seek…we find. And the new life He promised rises in us.

So don’t struggle any longer, it’s not your job to change your inside, that’s God’s job. For only He can do this. Your job is to worship, pray, praise, repent, go to fellowship, read the Bible and obey His directions. All the rest comes as God completes in us each new phase in His reconstruction project. So have faith, have patience and wait…with yourself and others. God’s good work in you will come to pass…He has promised you that. Endure the fire—it’s producing pure gold!

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