Choose Your Hard

I saw a picture about weight loss on the internet the other day that said "Maintaining your weight is hard. Gaining weight is hard. Losing weight is hard. Choose your hard." As I was reading in Galatians the other day I was reminded that following Jesus is the same way. Following Him is hard. We have to give up our unGodly desires and die to ourselves. But leaving Him and following our own desires is hard too. It's not a hard decision to make; but the reprocussions are hard. We find ourselves distant from Him and we know that we aren't pleasing Him.

Galatians 5:16-17
So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want.

So that you do not do what you want. No matter which way you go, you aren't going to do what you want. If you do what you want Spiritually, you'll have to give up what your flesh wants. If you do what you want in your flesh, you'll have to give up what you want Spiritually. No matter which way you go, you aren't going to do what you want. But this world isn't our home. It wasn't meant to be comfortable. Either way it's going to be hard. Either way you're going to have to sacrifice. But only one way is worth the sacrifice. Choose your hard.

Romans 7:14-20
We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do - this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.