Eliminate Faults

What are your faults? What are things you do that you know you shouldn’t do? Have you identified them? Do you want to rid yourself of them? Have you worked on eliminating them? Have you been successful? Have you asked for help? Are you willing to ask for help?

Identifying our faults can be difficult. Often, we are told about them by someone else. Imagine a baseball player who is the best player on his high school team. When he gets to college, the coach identifies things he needs to work on. He is shocked. He was always the best player.

Just like the baseball player who cannot see their faults, we struggle to ours. When someone else points them out to us, we may be shocked and may even be defensive. Even if we identify our faults on our own, we may not want to or have the discipline to eliminate them without help. Yet, we often do not want to ask for help, which means we continue to struggle with them.

The Apostle Paul tells the church in Colossae to eliminate earthly desires, which are faults from a Godly perspective. We typically cannot eliminate them without help. The help we need is God’s. We need the Holy Spirit to change us. Yet, we must first decide that we want to rid ourselves of them. If we continue to enjoy indulging ourselves in those earthly pleasures, we will not give them up. So, we need to understand the pain they are causing us, desire to change, and ask for the Holy Spirit to change us.

I pray we identify our faults, even if we must ask someone else to do so. I pray we desire to eliminate our faults. I pray each one of us will ask the Holy Spirit to change us. Identify your faults. Identify your desires. Be willing to eliminate your faults. Ask the Holy Spirit to help.

Colossians 3:5-6 Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry). On account of these the wrath of God is coming on those who are disobedient.