Weak and Powerless?

What is it, in the mental/internal sense, that causes us to feel weak and powerless?

That state of mind that seems to point out our defeats and failures? 

It is a struggle that all of us deal with, some more than others. Is it fear of commitment is it from past events that we have let them get the best of us or haunt us, we let those events or circumstances shape us instead of moving past and overcoming them in order to fulfill our greatest potential. It is understood that we cannot forget these instances that have molded us but we can break the mold! The power of Christ transforms, it doesn't leave us the way we came it renews us, makes us into a new creature, a new being, blameless and perfect in the sight of God. That is not to say we will not fight against the things of this world, temptation, the cravings of our sinful flesh, but our Spirit is made right. And in that instance of our Spirit being made new our hearts change, our desires change, we cease to love the hurtful things we once did, whether they be against others or our selves, we begin to hate those things, not wanting to do them anymore, yet still we wrestle with them and may fall but we cannot continue in that old pattern. Now we love to do the things we once thought silly and ridiculous, reading the Bible, praying, worshipping God, helping our neighbor for the love of God, these all seemed foolish and still do to many, but it is this foolishness to men that the world so desperately needs, they need the love of God manifested in us, those of the Body of Christ. We need to be loving others but we cannot truly fulfill that unless we first are loving God. We have to seek God with all that we are, our entire being, it is His truest desire. 

In doing that we obey in love, wanting to be closer to God, deepening that relationship. He fills us with His love overflowing so that we just create a mess of love all around us, loving our family, friends, co-workers, employers, employees, neighbors, enemies, politicians, government officials, strangers, the poor, the homeless, the elderly, the young, the tax collectors, the overly religious, the atheist, the garbage man, the postal worker, the retail teller, the janitor, everyone. God is not a respecter of persons as it says in Romans, so neither should we. That means we do respect people but it doesn't matter who they are what they've been through, His love and grace is for all. 

So don't get discouraged, don't feel like you've failed. Rise up in the power of God and live life abundantly, to the full, for His good pleasure, live a life of worship! Yes we were weak, we were powerless, but no longer, we have the power of Christ with in us, "Greater is He who is in you, than he who is in the world." 

So love God, seek Him out, call on His name.

We can endure all things through the power of Christ!