You will by no means get out
of there till you have paid the last penny. —Matthew 5:26
“There is no heaven that has
a little corner of hell in it. God is determined to make you pure, holy, and
right, and He will not allow you to escape from the scrutiny of the Holy Spirit
for even one moment. He urged you to come to judgment immediately when He
convicted you, but you did not obey. Then the inevitable process began to work,
bringing its inevitable penalty. Now you have been “thrown into prison,
[and]…you will by no means get out of there till you have paid the last penny”
(5:25-26). Yet you ask, “Is this a God of mercy and love?” When seen from God’s
perspective, it is a glorious ministry of love. God is going to bring you out
pure, spotless, and undefiled, but He wants you to recognize the nature you
were exhibiting— the nature of demanding your right to yourself. The moment you
are willing for God to change your nature, His recreating forces will begin to
work. And the moment you realize that God’s purpose is to get you into the
right relationship with Himself and then with others, He will reach to the very
limits of the universe to help you take the right road.” CHAMBERS
Have you become content with the
presence of sin in your life? It is like
being overweight. You don’t like it, you
know what you must do to correct it, and then you eat another donut or munch on
some chips. What is it that is going on?
Well, it is something spiritual. (Ephesians 6:12) “For our struggle is
not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities,
against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil
in the heavenly realms.” The problem is
that you view resisting sin the same way you do as not eating that donut. When fact, there is something much more
sinister, much more powerful, going on. A
struggle between the flesh and the Spirit.
And if you Spirit is not strong, well, as my doctor said .. “your weight
is going in the wrong direction”. The
solution for sin is spiritual, just like salvation. Temptation is not sin .. it’s like looking at
that donut through a window. But, once you go into the store, and pay your
money, and take a bite … not good! (1 Corinthians 10:13) “God has made a
way to escape the temptation” and so
avoid the sin. It’s a spiritual
solution, (Psalm 119:11) but it also
might be a good idea to stop walking by the donut shop. And if you do sin in
the future or have sin in your heart now, there is a spiritual solution for
that too. (1 John 1:9) CHARLEY
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