Acts 8

I used to once be like Simon the Sorcerer, thriving on attention and full of oneself.

Then God convicted me in my heart and showed me how I was full of bitterness and captive to sin.
And yes I was full of bitterness and captive to sin. Full of bitterness because I wasn't getting what I wanted, captive to sin because I wasn't even aware of what I was doing was sin.

Although my actions and my body was so much in service but my whole being was not holy and wholly captivated by God.

Then God began His work, to deal with all the crap that was in me, I had longed God to bless me and make me some one great, and my perspective was that I would be good serving God and then He will bless me and I will do something great! In that perspective I failed to see the whole picture I fail to account for others whom God has called as part of his body Later I realized I am not a sole product but rather part of a body.

I tend to forget this. This community paradigm is so important yet, my grasp of it wanes from time to time.

Now on I will not be called full of bitterness nor captive to sin. Those two things have no part with me anymore! I will continue to die to my ego, die to my desires, die to my ambitions, but simply focus on God Himself, brothers and sisters that He has lovingly placed around me and the work (fruit) that I can accomplish to bring glory to Him. I pray that I will not focus on a position or a title but may God increase my understanding and my faith to see the things that He sees and for me to become part of the solution Amen!

Scott 8.24am