Amen, you are correct, my post was more in regards to natural accomplishment and goal setting, but on the spiritual side there is this. It is EASY to honestly evaluate a natural task that didn't go off on time.
I wanted a new Apostolic.Net up by September, didn't get there until December and still am not where I want it. It is easy to say "I could have done thus and so, and met the goal so get with it for 2008 slacker"
Spiritually isn't easy because:
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(9) The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
(10) I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
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By "natural evaluation" we are going to listen to the "decietful bit". But since God knows the heart he will reveal what is there to us if we seek him over it understanding that we may not like what we find out.
We need to realize that this isn't an exercise we can ignore:
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(5) Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
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That kind of soul searching is what a good communion service is for, fast and pray leading up to it, go into it whith a "search me O lord" attidude and partake
knowing that we are eating and drinking worthily!
Maybe 2 or three days away from the job and the forums of fasting and praying would be good for all of us at this time of year. I have found myself that we pick up spirits in these discussions and walk away not knowing they are there...
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