Dont let sin drag you down...

 " I know I need to study, but Im too comfortable sitting on my couch in front of tv. Exams are a few weeks away anyway and I promise I'll study tomorrow."

" I know I need to spend time with god through personal devotion, but Im too busy doing assignments and studying for exams. I get tired at night and its hard to wake up in the morning to read my bible and pray to God."

I was planning to study after I woke up the other day and do as much as I could to make my day off productive. What ended up happening instead?? Yup, procrastinating pretty much the whole day. I've been wasting my time doing things that are not necesarry/ not productive such as facebooking for hours and hours, allowing myself to sit in front on tv for hours as well, and im sure I wasted my time doing other things that I cant event remember what they are at the moment but you get the point :D:D

I know that I am wrong and I know that I need to change, but my heart is dragging me down and saying that I should be okkie with the way I live now. Why am I like this?? Here are my reasons:

• I havent been feeding myself with the word of God which would protect me from my deceitful heart
• I am relying too much on my own power hoping that I would change sometime soon
• Im lacking of motivation and focus to be productive
• I let my deceitful heart take control of my life

By God's grace, I come to realise that my sin is causing me to feel and act that way (not using my time productively and letting my heart rules what I do.) Romans 7: 14-20 describes how I do things that I do not want to do because sin is living in me and it is sin who is causing me to do the things I dont desire. Romans 7: 24-25 continue to talk about how sinful I am and God rescued me from my sinful desire through Christ which transform my mind to be slave to God not to sin.

How should I deal with sin then knowing that it is my biggest problem now??

I wouldnt be able to deal with sin if I rely on myself because I am still living in my sinful body and my heart still deceives me so I am hopeless if I rely on myself. God knows that I would never be able to do so thus he sent Jesus to deal with my sin by dying on the cross. We have Jesus who knows how to deal with sin and able to sympathise our weaknesses just as Hebrews 4:15 says : "For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet was without sin."

Jesus is the answer of my problem. He fixed my problem of sin and thus I can cling to him to help me fix my deceitful hearts which leading me to allow myself to stay comfortable in sin and lacking of motivation to do what I have and want to do. My encouragement to you who have the same feeling as I do towards procrastination and sin are:

• let us fix our eyes and thoughts on Jesus who tranforms our minds to God
  
• ask God to help us fight against sin through prayer
• let us feed ourselves and protect ourselves from our deceitful hearts through regular bible reading
• keep encouraging you brothers and sisters in Christ to fix their eyes on Jesus too

"But my eyes are fixed on you, O Sovereign LORD; in you I take refuge—do not give me over to death." (Psalm 141:8)