Confessions of a Wanderer by Jill Carattini

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I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate. But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good. So I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.
And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t. (Romans 7:15-18)


Dear friends, you always followed my instructions when I was with you. And now that I am away, it is even more important. Work hard to show the results of your salvation, obeying God with deep reverence and fear. 13 For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him. (Philippians 2:12-13)


A Slice of Infinity Snippets:
Yet far more than the assurance that we are not alone as people who struggle, we are assured by the promise of God in the midst of that struggle, in the midst of weakness and wandering. In the words of one confession, “[O]ur good God...set out to find humanity, though humanity, trembling all over, was fleeing from God.” At the deepest levels of our humanity, it is true that we are prone to wander, prone to sin, prone to flee from God. But it was in our deepest state of ruin, our deepest plunge into sinfulness, when God stepped forward unwilling to let us remain in such a state. As Paul writes in Romans 5:8, “God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us.” Long before we could even articulate our lostness, God in his mercy set out to find us, setting forth a plan to make right within us all that is awry.

O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be!
Let that grace now like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.


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