Progress!

I know that God had been working in my heart and I can see it in so many different ways. One is that I no longer have an negative feelings of anger or hostility to a person in my life that I previously did. Even without specifically asking God took these feelings away. Why? Because he knows what we need and when we simply spend time in him presence he just takes the bad away and replaces it with good. Here an analogy that I can up with to describe this:

It's like when you peel a sticker off something and it leaves a sticky residue behind. If you rub, peel, pick, and try and wash it off it will come off but it's going to take some time and effort. However, if you have a drop of Goo-gone [aka GOD] it will come right off with little or no extra work and it leaves behind a clean surface.

God's replaced these feelings with ones of compassion. He's taught me that I am, as a christian, portraying HIM in everything that I do. Instead of looking at my feelings as what define me, I look at Jesus. What kind of Jesus am I being to other people if I'm mean, shy, uncomfortable, irritable, gossipy etc.? Funny thing is we don't have any excuse to be these things. First: Jesus Christ lives in every person who has accepted him as Lord. Second: 2 Timothy 1:7 says, "For God did not give us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power of love and of self discipline." So we really don't have any excuse.

• Got anger?
  

  Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. -James 1:19-20

• Got unrest?

  These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. -John 15:11

• Got sleepiness?
  
  The joy of the Lord is your strength.” Nehemiah 8:10
  

Look to God for everything you need. For it's not by ourselves that we can have victory. It's only by the one who died for us, Jesus Christ.