I have recently found myself having moods. It usually begins to swing in by mid-afternoon. It makes me unpredictable, grumpy, and no fun to be with. Ugh! I hate it! I can almost feel it coming up from inside and consuming me. Is it hormones? Maybe. Does that mean I have a right to it? I wish I could say yes, but we all know that’s not true. **sigh** It is something that needed to be dealt with and my sweet Lord knew just how to do it.

If you were in our services last Sunday you heard Will Galkin preach from Philippians 2:13 – It is God who worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure. This passage is special to me because I’ve meditated on this verse over and over. God is at work in me doing His sanctifying work in my life. What a blessing! The blessing turned quickly to conviction when the preacher then made serious application of it.

“Christ is powerful enough to save your soul from hell. What about the sin you’re struggling with right now. Is He powerful enough to save you from that as well?” Of course the answer was “yes!” There was no list of sins given, but I immediately knew that the Lord was putting His finger on my moodiness. “I Can save you from that, too, Denise.” Wow. It was easy to excuse it, to give my sin a nice name – hormones – and be done with it. Everyone else would just have to understand. But now, with this Truth in front of me, I was forced to recognize it for what it really was – selfishness and pride.

I took the preacher’s counsel and wrote down this sin in my journal and then how the Lord was showing me to deal with it. This week as I’ve been tempted to give in and be moody, my mind has gone to my Savior and His power to save me – not only from Hell, but also from this ugly sin. I’ve been saturating my heart more with my memorization passages and trying to think more His thoughts than my own. Am I perfect now? Ask my poor husband – the one who gets the blow of my emotions. No, I never will be until I get to heaven (what a day that will be), but I am seeing the Lord give me strength to overcome!

What sin are you dealing with that you excuse? The Lord has power to save you from hell, and from that sin, Friend. He’s at work in you right now and desires to free you from your bondage.

We sang this song on Sunday night –

If he saved you He can change you.

With love,