Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from 2024

Groundhog Day

I t has been said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again only to expect different results. This of course applies to many things in life but perhaps broadly to our struggle with sin as Christians. The apostle Paul wrote: For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. Romans 7:15 NASB How many times have we found ourselves repeating the same mistakes of old? If it is human to err but divine to forgive then God must be really good at forgiving. Why? Because we test Him time and time again. If you’re like me I don’t want to be caught up in this never ending cycle. I want to break free to a new path.  This whole line of reasoning reminds me of a 90s movie entitled Groundhog Day. The premise is simple. A selfish reporter, Phil Conners, played by comic actor Bill Murray finds himself reliving Groundhog Day over and over. At first he tries to exploit the knowledge he ha