the sinner in me

"anak ng...akala mo kung sino umasta...kristyano kuno...ang galing magkunwari!" says the sinner in me...

This is the moment our emotions exceeds the threshold of responding and starts the destructive trend of reacting. Our capability to think and assimilate is replaced with so much emotional turbulence and distress that the mind simply shuts down and hands over the reigns of our soul to the undependable tyrant - emotion. The tyrannical rule of the emotion pushes the conscience to unload credible truths and principles to make way for selfish and arrogant pseudo truths. This then destroys our perspective to view the reality of life and afterwards, we undergo a paradigm shift that would leave a scar in our heart as reminder of how reckless we have been with our choices in life. This does not happen instantaneously...it's a process that starts from the moment we wallow in our sins and ends either with dying grace or the realization that life is too short to live in sin.

Jesus laid down His life to give us an opportunity to live the life of a winner and conquer the sinner in us. God provided a way for us to always be protected in His everlasting love and grace...He even promised that NOTHING can ever nullify His love for the believer. It's the same love Jesus said that we should operate from to conquer the selfish and arrogant sinner in us. When you consider all these...we have no reason to let the sinner in us reek havoc in our life and in the life of others.

You will always have a reason to unleash the sinner in you...but there's a greater mandate to kill our old self and reflect the grace Jesus has been showing us. It's easy to react but it's wiser to respond. So...I leave you again with a choice...react or respond? but as for me and my soul, I know what to do with the sinner in me.