A10 FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 2010 CHILLIWACK TIMES
Faith Today BY EVANS HUNDERMARK Mountain View Church
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know this guy that I just want to punch in the nose! I am sure you know what I mean, there is that one person that just drives you nuts and irritates you to an extreme, and although not violent by nature I am convinced that the only way to fix this problem is to punch his reset button. Now, now, I know, I am a Christian and a pastor and am meant to take the gentler, turn-the-other-cheek approach but I am sure as you read this you can also identify with me and know people that have this same effect on you. This causes quite a dilemma for me! A tension rises within me about what I want to do and what
Which dog do I feed? I know I should do. It almost feels at times like there are two dogs at war within me: one an evil, vengeance-filled and angry dog that is selfish and controlling; and the other dog a good dog, who desires to do good and that is willing to sacrifice himself for the sake of others trying to emulate the God He loves and believes in. These dogs war it out, trying to gain control of my actions and my responses to life’s circumstances and I fear which dog will win. It is not just this circumstance with this particular person that causes this conflict deep within
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me; it comes from the situations and responses to almost everything I face daily. I feel it when I pass the homeless man on the street and try to justify my lack of compassion by telling myself that he is just going to use the money I give him for drink anyways. I feel it when I want to push my vehicle past the speed limit or when I am tempted to lie to get me out of an uncomfortable situation. I feel this conflict when I am angry and refuse to forgive someone or when I am having a bad day and ‘fly off the handle’ or act unfairly to my wife. I sense it as I walk
down the street, when my children want me to play with them after a long day’s work, when I receive a bill in the post or even read the newspaper and I don’t like this conflict. I read in the Bible about a man named Paul who wrote the majority of the New Testament, a godly man who preached peace with God and yet endured this same inner conflict. I love the way he expresses it: “The good I want to do, I don’t do and the bad I don’t want to do, I do...O wretched man that I am!” What Paul suggested was that these two natures within
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us are in conflict, both demanding to be fed with the object of their desires—be that revenge, unforgiveness and selfishness, or godliness, Biblical obedience, gentleness and self-control. So what will I do about these two dogs at war within me? Which one will gain control: the evil and selfish one, or the other dog, the good one who knows what God desires of me, who trusts and believes that God is a rewarder of those who seek after righteousness and Godliness? The answer is easy—whichever dog I choose to feed! ◗ Evans Hundermark is a pastor with Mountain View Church. he can be reached at pastorev@shaw. ca.
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