Day 8

One Word Diary
Day 8

-Application-

So today has been a fair day. Not good not totally bad just fair. It's been one that I feel like i have been going through the motions of Applying the scriptures, not really giving into the temptations of life but really having a difficult time accepting that move.
I know that's weird right? But that's the true nature of man. Wanting two things at once. I want to do what God wants, but there is that part of me that wants sin as well.
Thank God we have prayer. Time in prayer to God through the Holy Spirit is the only way to fight sins pull and have true obedience. And then we still don't have to do that alone, The Holy Spirit gifts us spiritual self-control, the Gifts of the spirit(Galatians 5:22-23) which says, "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.", comes all together to fill us with the Spirit and puts away the part of us that is tempted.
It all starts with Joy of the Lord that gives us the peace only God gives, that gives us the strength to be patient through the temptation of sin. We find the will of God to be kind to others around us while being tempted instead of being short tempered due to the fight we are in, and goodness as well as faithfulness to God while he is seeing us through the trial and gentleness to ourselves as we are practising self-control that God gives us.