"Surrender to Frailness"

"Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;" (Psalms 89:50)
Just in case you might have overlooked a couple of points from yesterday's post, move and act are meant to have been associated with one another; if something moves me, I am likely to act upon it or do something in response to being moved. Now if this was a prayer or petition, what might it be asking for, besides for God to remember something? You could give this request to the question of the previous verse; at which point you would be looking to blame something or someone else, as if God should show you lovingkindness, regardless of what you might have done, because you have an excuse. That might work better than saying you have worked so hard and deserve to be loved; if you know your Bible, then you know that works do not count towards salvation; works are the fruit of our salvation. Somehow there needs to be a solution to this cycle of reproach! I can not make anything work if I do not surrender! Everything might appear fine for a while, but sooner or later the baggage I keep is going trip me up and cause me to stumble. There is always death associated with sin, always! It might not be physical death, but it will be the death of something; something like your ministry, your fellowship, or your ability to disciple your friends and family. But! And that's a very big but! There actually is a solution to the reproach, thanks to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! Do you know why we are called sheep? Besides the fact that we are baaaad, sheep need to taken care of, or they will not survive. They will be eaten or run out of food; they cannot make it on their own because they do not know how, because they are basically stupid. I don't mean to proclaim that we are all stupid, because I truly believe that God gives us wisdom; but when it comes to commonsense, wisdom has left the building when it's time to sin! 'Oh, let me see what's over here.' Oh, no! It's a wolf!' I think you get my point. If we could somehow do this on our own, then Jesus would not have had to come and die on the cross! It's really that simple! God does not change, we are the unstable ones that stray and fall for anything new or exciting. If it gets our attention, then we think that there is something there we want to check out; and if it seems pleasing enough, we will go ahead and partake. You know, the only reason that God allowed His people to be a reproach was because they brought reproach upon His name, whether that might be through their actions or inaction...
"If it seems we are crazy, it is to bring glory to God. And if we are in our right mind, it is for your benefit. Either way, Christ's love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life. He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them. So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now!" (2 Corinthians 5:13-16) NLT