Satisfied With Sin

My Utmost For His Highest

‘This experience of our attention being directed to our concentration of personal sin is true in everyone’s life, from the greatest of saints to the worst of sinners. When a person first begins climbing the ladder of experience, he might say, “I don’t know where I’ve gone wrong,” but the Spirit of God will point out some definite and specific thing to him. The effect of Isaiah’s vision of the holiness of the Lord was the directing of his attention to the fact that he was “a man of unclean lips.” “He touched my mouth with it, and said: ’Behold, this has touched your lips; your iniquity is taken away, and your sin purged’ ” (Isaiah 6:7). The cleansing fire had to be applied where the sin had been concentrated.’ CHAMBERS

Have you ever said or heard said .. ‘We are just sinners saved by grace.’?  We must be careful to not minimize that truth. In other words, to resolve ourselves to the fact that we have a sinful nature.  That statement could well mean that I am a sinner and there is nothing anyone can do about it.  Bondye Kapab – God can!  That thinking puts on a slippery slope .. after resolving in our minds that we are sinners, we can start to think that sinning is really no big deal anymore … after all there is always 1 John 1:9 … And don’t forget Romans 8:1 .. There is also Romans 6:1-2 - What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?

Luke 18:10-14  “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.  I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’ “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’  “I tell you that this man [the tax collector], rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

You see when we resolve ourselves to sin, we, in effect, exalt ourselves.  We no longer see ourselves in the light of God’s holiness.  Don’t become satisfied with sin.  Content in your imperfection .. comfortable with what is an abomination to God and that which sent His Son to the cross.  Rather turn to God today .. and like Isaiah we too should say “Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man [or woman] of unclean lips . . . —Isaiah 6:5"

Let your light shine …

Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)