Standing in My Way

The Truth is Harder than the Lie... 

In 2017, Charley Pride released a song called "Standing in My Way". I never researched his thoughts behind it but most of it struck me as similar to our sin nature.  

Standing in My Way - Charley Pride 

I'm always there forever, I am

There between what I'm reaching for and the fingers on my hand

Blocking myself with things like words I shouldn't say

It seems I'm always standing in my way

Like the time I told you a lie

And I became the wall that stood between your heart and mine

I apologize but the truth is the truth don't ever fade

It seems I'm always standing in my way

My way is the hard way, I guess

Guys like me say no when we mean yes

I'd step aside if I could 'cause I live for your embrace

But it seems I'm always standing in my way

Why you stand beside me, I don't know

There's so many places a girl like you could go

I hope you see enough in me to make you wanna stay

'Cause it seems I'm always standing in my way

My way is the hard way, I guess

Guys like me say no when we mean yes

I'd step aside if I could 'cause I live for your embrace

But it seems I'm always standing in my way

I'd step aside if I could 'cause I live for your embrace

But it seems I'm always standing in my way

I'm always there forever, I am

There between what I'm reaching for and the fingers on my hand

We put self between our heart and God.

We put selfish desires between our heart and God. 

We put up walls in our hearts that block our relationship with God. Our anger at people and situations in life can be a wall if allowed to fester.  The Bible warns of the wrong kind of anger. We are told not to let the sun go down on our anger. 

We put things of this world between us and God.  We misplace devotion to Godly living because we are devoted to something or someone else.  

We are standing in our way.  

We tell lies with no regard for the consequences.  We brush aside our conscience in favor of laughter of the wrong kind. We brush aside morality as if it wasn't important because it was in our way to getting something we wanted. 

We are standing in our way when the bells n whistles of this world and the acceptance by others means more to us than obedience to God. 

We are standing in our way.

I look back on choices that I made that caused decades of division between myself and my God.  It wasn't Him. It wasn't something asked by Him that was too difficult. 

It was me.

I was standing in my way.