First things first. I want to start off by saying thank you to all my readers, subscribers, followers, and friends for your prayers and your encouraging words.
Today, I’ve been thinking about what it means to be artificial. We live in a world where it’s getting harder and harder to tell the artificial from the real. You have people who can make images, videos, and music that are all artificial, that only a trained ear or eye could catch. It’s caused me to reflect upon myself. It’s caused me to reflect upon my story and who I am.
You see, I’ve never tried to be someone who has everything put together because I don’t. A great many times I have lived with immense shame that I’ve even titled my Substack “The Biblical Man” because, in comparison to what a “Biblical man” I am anything but. I find myself being like David. If you had spent any time in the Psalms, you would start to think that David was, as some men say, a basket case. That he was up and that he was down. That he was doing good and then he was committing grievous sins, and then he was repenting, and then he was lamenting, and then he was happy, and then he was scared. You just go through it. The whole Book of Psalms is one diary entry of a man’s life. That’s how life is: it has its ups and its downs.
My goal has never been to be someone clean or put together, who has it all figured out. No, I believe that, since I have been saved by my Savior Jesus Christ, I’m a peculiar person, and because of that, I dwell with two different natures in this body. I have a quickened nature that was made alive by Jesus Christ through salvation, as the Scripture says, “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;” Ephesians 2:1. Yet I still live in the flesh. Paul laid out many things in his writings about the fruits of the Spirit and the fruits of the flesh, and how, when you want to do right, a lot of times you find yourself doing wrong.
