We all serve something.. We are slaves to something.. What we serve is what matters.. We can only serve one master as I pointed out in “Sin” and “One Master.” I truly believe that we are held by our desires and our lusts more than we will admit. I think that we don’t believe that we can be free from our addiction, so we don’t try to escape. We have let our past reign over us and tell us that we can never be better than that sin. It echoes in our head, never letting us forget what we did. It begins to separate us from God, because we don’t believe that He can save us from it. We don’t believe that we are worth it. Though we do not deserve His sacrifice, He sees us as worth it. He values you and me so greatly that He wanted to die for us. He wanted to be able to have an intimate relationship with us. I have found myself caught up in my sin.. Not wanting an escape from it. Growing further and further away from God. Disgusted with myself but unwilling to change. Unhappy with everything about my life, but not feeling that change would be worth it. I felt as if I would never be able to escape from my sin, my addiction, my master. I looked at verses like Philippians 4:13 and didn’t believe them. “Through God I can do all things” is what the verse says, but I felt that escaping from addiction was the exception. I felt as if that verse only meant something along the lines of healings, angels appearing, old testament miracles, I never believed that it meant that I could escape from my sin. The thing that clung onto me so tightly. I was so wrong. God took me when I was broken beyond belief, I was beaten down, rejected, and felt so alone. He took me then and knew that I was done trying to fight. I began to see the way that God views sin to an extent. I began to understand His will for my life and only that He satisfies. Though I knew these things, I never believed them. It was never real to me. It never changed my life. I pray family, that you are not where I was. That you are not feeling like you have no escape from sin, that you are alone, that you will never be any better than what you were, that you are not worth Christ’s sacrifice. Family, I hope and pray that regardless of where you are in your walk, how big or how little amounts of sin you have, that you just completely give it to God. We are not meant to only give Him parts of our lives, He wants all of it. The verse “my grace is perfected in your weakness” rings true in my life. I have seen it. I know that God has used my brokeness and weakness and inability to do much well on my own for His glory. But family, I want to challenge you that you realize that you are not held captive by your sins anymore, you are not held to those thoughts that race through your mind, you are not a slave of sin anymore, you are a servant of the King, bought with a high price. Why then is it we so easily forget this and so willingly run back to our chains in sin?
This week I received a question from someone asking why they loved their sin and what would happen to them if they died right now, loving their sin instead of God? They felt great not having that authority over them, only seeking their own pleasure. This is the mentality of our world right now. That they don’t care whether it is right or wrong, but that there is pleasure involved. Many of us are even caught in this mindset. Many Christians have been taken captive by this type of thinking. They think that they can sin and then repent and then sin again and go back and repeat this cycle till they are sick of that sin. Family, is this Christianity? Seeking pleasure, abusing the forgiveness of God to willingly return to that sin... NO! This is not Christianity, this is hypocrisy. This is where I was many times. Though we are all hypocrites, this is a lukewarm person. The type that Revelations 3:16 speaks of. God is repulsed by these people. If God is repulsed with an attitude, should we not run to that attitude? Family, we must be careful of this mindset. Sin is not ok! Sin is not fine with God. He knows our troubles, He knows our weakness, but this does not give us permission to abuse His grace! Though I do not judge one’s soul, only God can, I feel that “Christians” that find themselves loving sin more than God must seriously check their lives. No more spiritual splits. Time to take a side. I pray you choose forgiveness and direction and love and purpose. I pray that we no longer allow sin to have any reign in our lives. Family, can we begin this today? Working towards the goal set before us, not letting sin hold us back, not allowing addiction to keep puling us in, instead realizing that we are forgiven and God has broken our chains of addiction and freed us IF we follow Him.
Family, let’s be a generation that lives 100% for our King, every single day.
Blessings
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