Friday, April 15, 2016

We Might Accomodate Sin in Our Lives - But God Doesn't

My Utmost For His Highest
 
The high places were not removed from Israel. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was loyal all his days. —2 Chronicles 15:17
 
“Asa was not completely obedient in the outward, visible areas of his life. He was obedient in what he considered the most important areas, but he was not entirely right. Beware of ever thinking, “Oh, that thing in my life doesn’t matter much.” The fact that it doesn’t matter much to you may mean that it matters a great deal to God. Nothing should be considered a trivial matter by a child of God. How much longer are we going to prevent God from teaching us even one thing? But He keeps trying to teach us and He never loses patience. You say, “I know I am right with God”— yet the “high places” still remain in your life. There is still an area of disobedience. Do you protest that your heart is right with God, and yet there is something in your life He causes you to doubt? Whenever God causes a doubt about something, stop it immediately, no matter what it may be. Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.”  CHAMBERS
 
For some reason, actually the reason is known to all of us, each of us decides what sin is acceptable to cling to.  To make excuses for.  To accommodate in our lives.  It maybe external … using profanity … coarse joking … gossiping … watching things on television or in the movies, as voyeurs, that dishonor God .. that promote all that the flesh and sin have to offer, calling it entertainment, feeling “OK” because we are not doing those things ourselves .. but are secretly participating in them as we watch them with glee … or perhaps it is in our thought life .. attitudes we harbor against others, the list is long .. but you already know these things.
 
The danger in my writing these words is that some may think that I do not struggle with them.   1 Corinthians 10:13 says that there is no temptation that is not common to all of us.  We are all made of the same flesh, we all have the same sin nature, and as Christians, we all have the same Savior and same Spirit.  Friends, we must not be accepting of sin.  Thinking it is an inevitability.  Thinking that “It’s just the way I am”.  Making excuses for it.  The lenses on the headlights on Martie’s car have some sort of corrosion on them … like cataracts, I guess … the corrosion has limited the amount of light that shines on the road at night.  It’s getting to the point where it is dangerous to drive at night.  So it is with accommodated sin.  The light that shines from us is dimmer.  God is not pleased with us .. He can have no part of sin .. yet we behave like He doesn’t mind.  He sent His Son to the cross because of our sin nature .. we have been given a new life  .. why would we have accepted sin in our lives as OK?  Repent.  ELGIN
 
Charley Elgin

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