Good Intentions

But I had Good Intentions

One Saturday I was walking by the laundry room and noticed that a load of clothes that Michelle was washing had stopped and was ready to be put in the dryer. I put the clothes in the dryer, placed a dryer sheet in the dryer and turned them on.

Later Michelle walked through that part of the house, and she came back shaking her head. She said, “I must be going crazy. I don’t remember putting those clothes in the dryer.” Of course, I piped up telling her that, being the good husband that I am, I had put the clothes in the dryer for her. She smiled and thanked me and said, “The only problem was that there were 2 pairs of pants that I didn’t want dried in the dryer.”

Life is like that sometimes in that we can have good intentions and yet the execution or lack of execution of those intentions can turn out wrong. We mean well but it doesn’t turn out well.

The Apostle Paul understood that when he wrote in Romans 7:15-20 that the very good that he intended to do (Good things), he wound up not doing and the very thing (sin) that he didn’t intend to do he wound up doing. His intentions were good but the sinful nature inside of him caused him to both do and not do the very things that he intended.

Because of his frustration with the sinful nature and doing what he didn’t intend to do. Paul wrote in verse 24 “What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?” And then he answered his own question in verse 25: “Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!” Praise God for His mercy and grace and that He gives us the strength and power to overcome our sinful nature and turn our intentions into reality. In love with Jesus – Gary Mimbs