So i don't have anything super fancy to write about right now. However, i was of course at Starbucks today for a few hours as i often am, and i was just writing (again as i often am) and i was thinking about this war that we are constantly fighting between our flesh and our spirit. Honestly it sucks fighting it day in and day out. I thought i was weird for awhile when some days i would want to live for Christ and other days i just wanted to drink my feelings away. The inconsistency drives me nuts. But it's a battle we are all fighting every day. Some hide it better than others. But we are all living with that uneasiness. Like the mixing of water and oil are our soul with our flesh. We can't glorify both sides. We have to pick one and fight with everything in us.
I was also thinking about why i keep going back to old coping mechanisms. It's a disgusting cycle of temporary relief which leaves me feeling emptier than before. But it actually made me think of soda. No matter what anyone says, soda is crap. It's awful for you, because of the sugar (or fake sugar which is equally unhealthy for the "diet" coke drinkers), the caffeine and well, the acid you are putting into your body. Don't get me wrong, i love soda, but anytime i drink it when i am thirsty it only satisfies me for a short bit. And then I'm thirstier than i was before. So i shot myself in the foot by the tasty immediate gratification. But this is exactly what the things of this earth do to us. The promise us relief, comfort, and fulfillment. Then they end up leaving us hollow, lonely, and thirsty for something of real worth and substance. Something we don't find in worldly passions and desires. Don't drink the sinner soda.
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