Growth Swatting My's

[Sandy Zalecki]

"My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolishness." Psalm 38:5

Do you have flies in your house? In the late summer and early fall we have so many flies that we can't keep them out of the house. Every time we open up the door they fly in and we have to continually swat them again and again.

The "my's" of life can be likened to flies in house. Some of the "my's are "my will," "my stuff" and "my attitude." If I'm not diligent to swat them out of my daily life with God's help, I must go on a much more difficult mission: swatting multiple "my's" at a time. Like flies, they like to rest in common places. Like flies, the "my's" come in from the open doors of daily living, or they grow from the "my's" I missed on a previous attempt to reduce their number.

The "my's" of life can be greatly lessened by filling my life with good things from God. If I have surrendered my heart and mind to God, having rejected the rotten, foul-smelling thing of selfishness, there is a much better chance that my mind won't be swarming with "my's." For then my "my's" will be replaced with the mind of Christ.

 

[follower]

yes.
i've read that in the Hebrew language
(and looked up to verify, found and verified, then forgot where )
there's not a way to even say "that's mine" --- there is no personal ownership in the language. not even of hands or feet or heart or mind !

everything, everything, belongs to Yhwh the Creator. it is all His.

thus when the believers in acts did not call anything they had their own, this was just a continuation of truth embedded in them , in the people, in the culture, in the language, for so many centuries that Yhwh the Creator had led them and dealt with them.

it wasn't something 'new', but the old way, Yhwh's way. the way He wants and always wanted.

today, if only a few believers would learn this truth from their heart, and obey Yhwh in Yeshua the same as the believers in the N.T., having faith in His Name and trusting Him and relying on Him.

unbelievers routinely share a house, and instead of their expenses being 500 to 5000 every month,
instead only 135 to 235 a month suffices for everything household wise (not vehicles wise, but those too are tremendously easier to care for and have to use when shared).

 

[rthom7]

Song 2:15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.

Yes Sandy similar to this verse....the little things of life annoy us....

The vine is us, the grapes is our character
The fox Is smaller version of dysfunctional things that go wrong....

Shalom