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<p><strong>Wash Your Buts!<br />Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it;<br />That he might sanctify and cleanse it with<br />the washing of water by the word<br />Ephesians 5:25 26 (KJV)</strong></p><p>Ever go through a period of knowing what pleases God yet not really wanting to do that <strong>thing</strong> (or let that thing <strong>go</strong>)? Well welcome to the club. We all struggle from time to time with disobedience. We often do know what is right-<strong>BUT</strong> we have excuses.</p><p>We may even feel good about ourselves for not committing some of those basic sins (i.e. adultery lying cheating stealing etc.). But what about when we need to go out of our way to have that conversation we really don't want to have-like asking forgiveness? <strong>BUT</strong> I was not wrong we say.</p><p>Or maybe there's a nudging to give more than we'd planned. <strong>BUT</strong> I need it more we reason.</p><p>For a while we may not know what God's will is on a matter. Then like Paul there's a blinding light and we want to say Not so Lord rather than change our way of thinking. <strong>BUT</strong> God understands! we console ourselves.</p><p>Whether we're aware of it or not all such stubbornness and disobedience (yours <em>and</em> mine) is rooted in a lack of faith in God. I once heard that God's people would be much more obedient to His Word if we truly believed that:</p>• God knows more than us.<p>• God loves us more than we love ourselves.<p>Why else would we resist His known will? We either don't think God knows what He's doing or we think He is out to mess us up.<p>What are we to do? We've got to have our minds cleansed with God's Word so we can better know:<p>• Who God is.<p>• That God <em>really</em> loves us.<p><p>In this sense brain washing is good.</p><p>Psalm 119:9 states that we can be cleansed by taking heed unto God's Word. Let's let God's Word wash away all our objections so that instead of saying <strong>BUT</strong> God we will say Yes Lord.</p><p>God knows so much more than we do AND He cares for us more than we know.</p>