Burning Hearts with Rachel Herbeck

In Christ, we have a new nature through our Baptism, but we are tempted to still live in our old nature that is corrupt and deceitful. Today we explore how to fight the battle between our two natures.

The devil often uses the tool of discouragement to get us to fall back into futile ways of living. We see today in the psalms that a tool to overcome discouragement is to worship and praise the Lord in all circumstances.

As we continue to discuss this idea of futile thinking, we see often how we are tempted to fall back into our old patterns of life. We see how sin darkens our mind and we ask for the grace to resist temptations so our minds may be enlightened by Christ.

This week we take up a section in Ephesians 4 where Paul discusses and describes the reality of the futile minds of those who don’t know Christ. We ask the Lord to deliver us from futile ways of thinking.

In contrast to hell, today we read about the glory that awaits us in Heaven. While we should desire to avoid hell, our desire should be more and more to see the face of God and this should spur us on in our spiritual journeys.