Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Hebrews 12:1
Junk (It’s really sin): In my life, junk consisted of pride, selfishness, self-pity, jealousy, frustration, doubt, bitterness, impatience, strife, unforgiveness, hate, confusion, the fear of man, angry with God, I knew I was neither a good husband nor the kind of father my children deserved, generational strongholds, and others I can’t remember just now ☺. Sin, life lived apart from God’s wonderful ways, is miserable.
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
1 Corinthians 10:13
Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
Isaiah 51:11
Are you kidding me, Mark? Nope, I’m not. Choosing Jesus every day works. It’ll change you. It’s really that simple. It may not always be easy (your pride and satan will make you think it’s hard to do), but it’s truly simple. God always intended it to be simple, and POWERFUL. We simply need to be willing.
I can’t keep choosing Jesus every day to myself. No one could. Those who Jesus healed wanted to tell everyone what He’d done for them. It just comes pouring out of you like an overflow that can’t be contained.
Over the years, Jesus has let me meet and know some powerful people in the Lord, and their lives were incredible because they were choosing to follow Jesus every day. That’s how the victory over “junk” (sin) is won!
When God is setting you free from as much junk as I used to wrestle with – and I mean it was no fun living with that junk – you become a new person. I was SO unhappy. Now, I’m not. And Jesus is just getting started with me and my wonderful wife. That’s our Jesus!
ChoosingJesusEveryDay.com is now up and running – we’ll add to it as God leads.
It’s our prayer that God will use it to set many free as they learn how to Choose Jesus Every Day! All anyone needs to do is ask Jesus to help them get free from the junk in their own life.
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit (that’s what my life used to be), out of the miry clay (the junk can really stick to you, but Jesus will show you how to persevere), and set my feet upon a rock (Jesus), and established my goings (and steadied me as I walked along).
Psalm 40:2
God bless you all,
Mark