How do you change?
2007-06-25 07:26:27 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Until about 10 years ago, I thought I was doing quite well - all things considered. Then God began to deal with me and reveal something of the extent of besetting sins that I did not even realise I was guilty of. It was in one sense the most horrendous experience, and in another the best possible experience. No way could I have begun to grasp, let alone deal with, those sins without the Holy Spirit convicting me. The years following had me wondering if I had ever really been a Christian at all, I became so aghast at the sin lurking in my inner being - in my heart. Of course, I had been saved from my sin decades ago, and I never lost that assurance, but God's strict dealings with me made me realise afresh the need to repent every day, and to grow in grace through his enabling. I also took comfort from the fact that it was because I was a child of God that he was disciplining me. He has brought me through this time, having refined me, and I will now never again think what a fine person I am. I am a sinner, but a save dsinner, and I thank God for how he is changing me.
2007-06-25 09:33:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only way to ever grow as an individual is to find your own faults, admit them and work on them. Constantly putting blame on others for everything that goes wrong in your life is self-defeating. The changes that need to be made, the ones you have control over are the ones that lie in you.
2007-06-25 14:32:08 · answer #2 · answered by sparkles9 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Um, is inner being the same as my soul? And yes I change them. Everyone has a different way to change.
2007-06-25 14:30:07 · answer #3 · answered by Comrade 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that half the battle is just being able to identify your faults. Most people don't even have the guts to do that. I think that it is possible to be humanly perfect because i think what makes you humanly perfect is when you identify your faults and try to change them. But when i say change them. .i don't really mean try to fix them so that you have no faults. What makes you who you are is by living with your faults and experiences. When i say change them. .i mean changing them so that you can use them to your advantage. .making them a positive instead of negative.
2007-06-26 12:40:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can see my faults,but I don't change them by myself.
Once I was at this party,and my best friend tempted me to drink with him,so I did. That morning I woke up on the street, I could hardly move.Somehow I managed to come back to my house.
Next week I went to another party,with my friend,and he asked me to drink with him,again. This time I said no. He tried hardly to convince me to drink,but after a while he failed,and went to find another drinking-companion.
You see,I needed the first time to learn how bad It was to excess in alcohol,and the second time,knowing it was bad I abstained from it.
I changed my mind only because I confirmed that which others told me was bad.
2007-06-25 14:39:23 · answer #5 · answered by Laff -Hugs 4all- 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but often not without failing miserably. I'm not sure if I am completely aware of my most heinous faults. It is probably too difficult for a person to deal with their deepest, most troubling faults. That's why we find people who accept us for who we are, knowing that we all have issues. Then, through relationships with those people we learn better behaviors or we come to realize how to avoid destructive behaviors and seek self-respecting, loving ones.
2007-06-25 14:31:36 · answer #6 · answered by thrash 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I see them. I try to change them. it doesn't work. My inner faults are things that i cant' really change. yeah. it's not cool.
2007-06-25 14:29:13 · answer #7 · answered by Cathy J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course. It is all about the choices I make. I don't do the things now that I am 35 that I would have made at 18. It's called growing up and wisdom.
2007-06-25 14:30:14 · answer #8 · answered by Windy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I am not afraid to see that I have things that need to worked on. You have to work on changing your way of thinking about whatever it is and keep telling yourself the right way to handle the situation at hand.
2007-06-25 14:32:27 · answer #9 · answered by Vintage Glamour 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Great question. Yes, I do. At the end of each day I play out my day. I try to recall those instances when I was faithful to God as well as those times when I was not.
Peace and everry blessing!
2007-06-25 14:34:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋