Depravity

At Asenaville, we believe in the depravity of Mankind and The Empowerment of Christ against this depravity. We believe in a redeemed world that lives free of the shackles of sin and all its attendant consequences. Welcome to Asenaville.

Depravity is wretchedness. It is being out of control. It is being left to the elements to lead you whichever way they choose. Depravity is the savagery that lives in all fallen ones.All of us apart from the saving grace of God are depraved.

We might come out as exemplary, straightforward or any other desirable quality but for as long as our nature is still that selfish, fiendish one, we come out as we really are. It is said you can't keep a good man down. That is indeed true just the same way you can't keep an evil man down. He comes to the surface at the appropriate time. I have come to understand that we don't need to sin to be called sinners. This explains why a perfectly normal individual will do some unthinkable, unfathomable thing out of nowhere!!!! Not really the truth is that we harbor in us savage tendencies that left to ourselves, we are capable of the worst that can be imagined. Our sinful nature is inborn. we are born sinners and it is only the choices that we make that can change our status either for the better or the worse.

The day you acknowledge your depravity is the day you allow God to turn your life around and make you somebody worth writing home about. It is at the point of acknowledging that you need God's help that you are able to turn around and begin to truly live the good life.

I have also noted that no one is more aware of Depravity than a practicing christian. It really makes sense because the closer you move to the light the clearer you see the stains on your garments. As long as you are sitting in the dark, you will be comfortable about who you are. Light truly exposes the darkness and depravity of our souls. That Light is Christ and once we draw close to him, we are all made painfully aware of just how far we are from the truth.

This therefore means that our coming to Jesus does not exempt us from failing, only that we know who to turn to for strength when we are failing. We know who to appeal to for grace and empowerment to live the right life. Our depravity can only be conquered in Christ and no other. this is what no other religion will offer you. You will be asked to clean up your act to receive redemption. Jesus picks you up in your filth, cleans you up and presents you to His Father blameless. He doesn't sit on a high horse and calls you to go the distance. He goes the distance. In fact He has gone the distance by his death on the cross. All that remains is for you to stretch out your hand like a drowning man asking for help and He will take you and make you what he envisions you to be.

Therefore drop your depravity in His hands and let him give you a new heart, mind and soul to do that which is right for you,Him and everyone else.

Shalom.