Sister Connie Keyohara has blessed us with another posting this morning! God Bless you Connie!
For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. Romans 3:23
God wants us to know how sin effects us and how we should fear the consequences of sin. It should scare us and me mustn’t take sin lightly.
But sin tempts the best of us and even the godliest among us commit sin. As we just read, all have sinned and fallen short.
King David was a man after God’s own heart and yet he entered into temptation and committed many sins. Adultery, lust, deception, betrayal, and murder. God eventually confronted David through the prophet Nathan, David denied his sin because our natural tendency as sinners is to deny it. God will convict us of sin though.
And as David did we try to cover out tracks, then we try to justify it and sometimes we become oblivious to sin. This is what I call the danger zone, when we act like we’re above the consequences of the sin. Because you see we can choose to do what we want, but we don’t get to choose our consequences.
Everybody has different consequences, for some it might be harder to deal with than others. But eventually our sin will find us out.
John 12:46 “I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.”
Sin will hinder our spiritual walk because it steals the time, attention and affection that we need to maintain our communion with God. Sin also takes time from your family. Which in turn harms them.
Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live. Romans 8:12-13
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. Colossians 3:5-6
It is very important that we will seek God on these matters, that we pray and read our Word, because sin will keep us from the Bible, but the Bible can keep us from sin.
You must not give sin a vote in the way you conduct your lives. Don’t give it the time of day. Don’t even run little errands that are connected with that old way of life. Throw yourselves wholeheartedly and full-time—remember, you’ve been raised from the dead!—into God’s way of doing things. Sin can’t tell you how to live. After all, you’re not living under that old tyranny any longer. You’re living in the freedom of God. Romans 6:12-14 MSG
My prayer for you today is that you would leave your life of sin and let God start the restoration process.
Many Blessings,