"Giving Up"

"Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me." (Psalms 51:5) My mom would always say, "A leopard can't change it's spots"; this she would say as to my unchangeable condition to get into trouble, and that no matter how hard I try, this is what I am, spotted. That is pretty much what David is saying here, is that this is the rock that he was brought forth from, and maybe if he would have realized that sooner, he might have taken better care to avoid temptation. We all need to realize what we are, and more importantly, what we are capable of becoming! This is like an Isaiah before the throne moment, where you confess your sins before God, only to realize that you are a worthless sinner, born and raised in a sinful world, with no chance of changing, because this is what you are. Some may not think that this is important to realize, but this might be one of the most important steps that there is towards repentance. Back to the slave illustration that Jesus gave, and how "the servant abideth not in the house for ever", there has to be a change in the life a the believer, and that change must come from within; if there is no change, then that servant will leave the house because he does not feel welcomed, nor does he belong there, and that house was never really his house to begin with. This John gives reference to in 1 John 2:19, saying, "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us." In other words, they never were actually changed, but had only tried to cover their spots; spots that were what they were, and there was nothing they could have done to remove or to cover them; it had to be a change on the inside, which comes from a changed heart; a heart that Jesus has come to dwell within, because we had given up on trying to change ourselves, and we invited Him into our hearts, that He might change us... "And this is the condemnation, that Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than Light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the Light, neither cometh to the Light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the Light, that his deeds may be manifest, that they are wrought in God." (John 3:19-21)