Do you ever stop to wonder, "will I ever change, will I always be the person that I once was?" "The progress that I have made in changing, will it last, can I really be this new person?" I can remember having these thoughts before and I after I made the decision to trust the Lord to do a work in me. These type of thoughts come from feeling inadequate. When I looked up the definition for inadequate , it gave; not sufficient, inept or unsuitable, along with defective and imperfect. Now when I look at the words used to defined this term, there are parts that I agree with and other parts that I don't. Yes, I agree, that we become defective when we experience things in life that leave us hurt, scarred, emotionally damaged, and whatever else. Not making the right choices and decisions can also cause us to loose are original form. There are times in my life, that, I can look back on and see when I was starting to loose form and life experiences put me in a
"For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God's gift - 9 not from works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are HIS workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time for us to do." Ephesians 2:8-10