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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