"Then the Lord said to Cain: 'Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it.' "
That's what God said to Cain. The sin in me (without Jesus) appears so close up and big that I allow it to devour me, instead of working to master it. God spoke to me. He reminded me to work out my salvation (Philippians 2:12).
I must obey Him in order to be purified; then and only then can I "have sincere love for my brothers, love others deeply, from the heart".
The craziness of my path in life is the direct result of the sin in my life. I didn't just "make bad choices", I willfully disobeyed God's word ... WOW .... I've never ever thought of it in that way. I have always packaged my life in terms of the fact that I made bad choices, I didn't think before I acted, blah blah blah .... all of those things are another way of saying that I chose a way other than the one laid before me by God. period. straight up sin.
I Peter 2:8
" ... they stumble because they disobey the message - which is also what they were destined for."
That has always been difficult for me....looking in the face of sin..... I realized years back that everytime I choose sin I choose to not love...God or me.... OUCH!
ReplyDeleteso very true .... that was a hard one to face, when you look at it that way!!!
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