Many times, the world is enticing. Isn't it? The world's desires are our desires, that's why came out of this world. But there is a calling for all that we leave the old self and be sanctified into a new body, a new creation, created for God's glory.
1 Corinthians 15:33-34
33Do not be misled: "Bad company corrupts good character." 34Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.
Wake up! Come back to your senses and STOP SINNING. This says a lot whenever the event of sinning is active. We lose our senses. We lose our RIGHT THINKING, our EYES are blinded, our FEELINGS numb, our HEARING is deaf, our TASTE is not that good at all. COME BACK TO YOUR SENSES and STOP SINNING.
But how can we do just that? We are sinners? Can we be God and be totally clean?
I believe not. We are proud if we say we are clean. We don't acknowledge our own sinfulness. We have already lost the mark, the only reason we are righteous because of the blood that was shed for us. Other than that, nothing. We are nothing.
But there is one thing we can do. It is to acknowledge that we are weak and dirty. That we loathe our own repetitive sinning. We cannot stop even though we want to stop. And Paul had the same heart in Romans, saying...
Romans 7:15-25
15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[c] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. 21So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22For in my inner being I delight in God's law; 23but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!
There is only one way! He who said, I am the way, the truth, and the life is the only way.
Whenever there is an emergency we always call for help. And we will be reminded to call the emergency hotline. But do you think God did not already prepared for that? Did God not give us an emergency hotline? I believe that God has already prepared beforehand, His helping hand and has guided us to do so, even in sin, that we glorify Him through this. God has already given us the perfect escape from sin, it is Christ! But we have to respond to it. And that is what God has given us. Confess that we are sinners, confess that God is right when He said that we have fallen short.
I remember a woman speaking on television about sin. And she really talked boldly about what is God's solution whenever we sin. She talked about people whenever in an emergency would call 911 that we also have the hotline. The diffenrence is that we should dial it backwards 1-1-9!
1 Jn 1:9 says:
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
The God who created the universe by His hands, is reaching out to us, wanting us to have an abundant and fruitful life. Let's yield to His calling, to a humble God and be renewed, revived, restored.
In God, everything is AWESPIRING! God bless!
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