Maybe you can relate: It is easier to do without if what I want isn’t close enough to tempt me.
I don’t shop if I don’t want to spend. I don’t get donuts if I don’t want to eat sugar. I don’t have soda in the house if I don’t want to drink carbonated soft drinks.
It’s much harder to deny my desires when what I long for is within reach.
Read the rest here: Life at the Intersection of Desire and Self-Control
Lord, help me accept and embrace
that the life I am living is the life You made for me
and the life You made me for
Even when (especially when)
it is not the life I imagined or would have chosen for myself.
Make my heart pliable under Your hand,
give me grace for the hard places,
light for the dark places and
hope for the desperate places.
Teach me to lean into You,
trust You and to follow You
wherever You may lead.
Give me songs in the night.
Amen
Below is a link to one of my favorite songs. I often sing or hum it to myself to remind me of Truth, when the enemy wants to overwhelm me with despair and lies.
You Are My Hiding Place by Selah
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