I have a confession to make.
For the longest time, I allowed my secret sins to reside in me. My feeble mind’s thinking only fueled the fire that drove the wedge between me and my relationship with God, not to mention what it did to my marriage.
I realize that the reason why we have relationship issues is because God is constantly testing our faith. The trials we face daily in our lives are meant to make us look into ourselves, how well we know ourselves in our relationship with Him. Sin happens because we forget God’s truth. The will to turn from our secret sins is a decision we have to make on our own. No one else can make that decision for us.
Sin is everything which is contrary to God and God’s will.
Sin is an illness.
It is a choice.
It is an addiction. And like all addictions, it will ultimately destroy us if we feed that addiction!
For so many sleepless nights now, I’ve looked into my relationship with God. Am I penitent? Is my heart soft? Am I truly open, ready and willing for Him to test me? Am I ready to listen to His soft and tender voice?
Tonight and for every night for the rest of my life, I can honestly say I am.
“Purer in heart, o God, help me to be;
That I Thy holy face one day may see;
Keep me from secret sin, reign Thou my soul within.
Purer in heart, help me to be.”
---F. C. Davison
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For we know that the law is spiritual:
but I am carnal:sold under sin.
For that which I do I allow not:
for what I would, that I do not; but what I hate, that I do.
If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
"For I know that in me[that is,in my flesh]dwelleth no good thing:
for to will is present with me;
but how to perform that which is good I find not.
For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not that, I do.
Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
I find then a law, that, when I would do good,evil is present with me.
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
O wretched man that I am!who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
I thank God THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.
So then with the mind, I myself serve the law of God;but with the flesh the law of sin....Romans 7:14-25
I used to wonder about and not understand this chapter in Romans Noel, but the older I get the harder the battle is to overcome sin.
I am glad that even though sin is in us on this earth that God is with us in the battle.
I find that I really did not know before I was saved, how bad sin really is.
You hit the target Noel,when you said in this posting that sin is a choice.
We are all guilty about making the wrong choice sometimes but we can't dwell on it after we have told the Lord about it and asked His forgiveness because Jesus has already paid.And then we have to try so hard the next time not to do it again. How hard this is at times!
I know of a preacher who a lady asked him once," I just cannot see how God can be looking down and not seeing how sinful I am. Even though I am saved, my heart seems so black inside!
Mr. McBain then said to her as he took from his pocket a white envelope and a small black pebble,
"Now he said,"I am going to put this black stone in this envelope and you watch me. I am then going to seal it".
She watched closely as he did this very thing..He then held the envelope in the air and asked the lady,'Now, can you see that black stone?"
"Why NO!", she said." I only see the white envelope."
"Well", the preacher told her,"This is exactly what the Lord sees when He looks at you. He sees you only through His own dear Son who has washed your sins away. He only sees the white and not the black! You are in His white envelope,and THAT white envelope is the Lord, and the envelope is sealed!
Isn't that something Noel?
By reading your blog and seeing your honesty in this struggle you have been having,I am sure that there is more than just this one person who you are helping.. God bless you.... I will be praying continually for you......from Terry
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