Are Your ready To Face The Consequences? Not Really

My Utmost For His Highest

“Not being reconciled to the fact of sin— not recognizing it and refusing to deal with it— produces all the disasters in life. You may talk about the lofty virtues of human nature, but there is something in human nature that will mockingly laugh in the face of every principle you have. If you refuse to agree with the fact that there is wickedness and selfishness, something downright hateful and wrong, in human beings, when it attacks your life, instead of reconciling yourself to it, you will compromise with it and say that it is of no use to battle against it. Have you taken this “hour, and the power of darkness” into account, or do you have a view of yourself which includes no recognition of sin whatsoever? In your human relationships and friendships, have you reconciled yourself to the fact of sin? If not, just around the next corner you will find yourself trapped and you will compromise with it. But if you will reconcile yourself to the fact of sin, you will realize the danger immediately and say, “Yes, I see what this sin would mean.” The recognition of sin does not destroy the basis of friendship— it simply establishes a mutual respect for the fact that the basis of sinful life is disastrous. Always beware of any assessment of life which does not recognize the fact that there is sin.” CHAMBERS

One of the big problems we have with sin, is that the consequence of that sin is never considered before we sin, it is only lived out, later.  Remember David and Bathsheba? (2 Samuel 11-12) David killed a man to cover it up and then the baby died. It is like the young man who takes a risk that could mean losing his life, but he does not consider the possible consequences and if he does, he thinks they may happen to someone else, but not to him.  It is the young girl who gives in to a physical relationship with a young boy dispelling the possible consequence of pregnancy and yielding to the emotion of the moment.  But she conceives and her life is radically changed .. for the rest of her life, and not only hers but the boy’s, the baby’s, and the extended family’s as well.  When we are tempted with sin, if we are not spiritually ready to meet and defeat that temptation, we will be blinded to the consequence … the least being some physical or relational consequence … the most being that we shut ourselves off from the power of God in us. That is until we confess our sins, and God washes our feet … we don’t have to be saved again … though some believe that .. but we do need to be cleansed (1 John 1:9).  And what about the consequences … well, to our detriment, we must endure them.  So why is it important to draw close to Jesus every day?  Think about it.  ELGIN

Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)