Hellooooo!

Hey my wonderful girls! (sorry this is long)
I hope you guys are all having great breaks! Congrats, Jess on good grades in Nutrition! woooh!

I just wanted to give you guys an update on what i'm learning in my QT's lately.

"We died to sin: how can we live in it any longer? Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life." Romans 6:2-4

So I read this, and I was like...huh? I'm dead to sin? really? I died with Christ? what?

Romans 6:6-7 says "Our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin-because anyone who has died has been freed from sin."

So basically i'm really pumped about this topic that has been laid in front of me to study. I still don't really have a whole lot of understanding on how I am dead to sin, crucified with Christ, living a NEW life, because I don't feel like i'm dead to sin. I sin all the time, how am I dead to it? So I'm pretty much stumped but it's been really great just trying to search God on this topic. I don't know if I'll ever fully understand this, but it's awesome spending time with Him and trying to learn from his word. Haha.

I'm really trying to accept all of this as truth, and I'm taking a lot of joy in it. Yesterday, I was driving in my car and I got this really big sense of peace about the fact that I WILL NEVER BE PERFECT. No matter how hard I try or how much I beat myself up. It will never happen. Isn't that awesome?
2Corinthians 12:9 says "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness" (I know you love that one linz). That verse has really stuck out to me.

I think that's why though. We don't have to be perfect. That is God's job. When we are weak, his power is the PERFECT remedy. There is nothing better than his grace and love to cover over sins, to cover over weakness.

Also...I was reading a facebook note that this guy on the Isle of Palms wrote, and in it he mentions him and his friends nailing their sins to a cross out in the woods. I shivered...it made me feel uncomfortable. Then for some reason I turned to colossians and read Colossians 2:14
"He took it (our sinful nature) away, nailing it to the cross." Again I felt really uncomfortable. Then I started wondering why that was so uncomfortable for me...

Satan is using my pride to make freedom from sin a really hard thing for me to want to acheive, which is why i really think we need to do it with small group. I don't really want to look at all my sin hanging on a cross and have to face them, but we can build a cross and nail our sins to it. I think it would be really awesome and freeing. What do you think?

sorry this is soooo long and random. Had a lot to share. :D I LOVE YOU GUYS!