Psalm 51:3
For I know my transgressions, and my
sin is ever before me.
I bet you thought this was going to be a “confess
all” blog. Not necessarily. I will confess to you that I am a sinner, and
I do specifically and humbly confess my sin to trusted people in my life. In fact, I am pretty open about my sin and my
need for repentance.
But sometimes we grow comfortable with our
sin, and we don’t even realize how bad it has become. I once saw a person who had cancer on their
face. It had literally eaten off part of
their face, and left a black, ragged hole right there in the middle of it. They had grown comfortable with the
disfiguration, but most people had not.
In fact, I hate to say it, but when others saw it they were pretty much
horrified.
I am afraid this is how we often view our
sin. To us it doesn’t seem that bad, or
we grow so comfortable with it we even forget it’s there. But God has a way of bringing our sin before
us, and when he does we must respond correctly.
Saturday morning I confessed to Dustie I was
having a problem harboring anger in my heart.
I know that doesn’t sound like a big deal, but Ephesians
4:26-27 says that holding on to anger like that “gives
the Devil a foothold”, and once you give him a foothold he has easy
access to other areas of your life.
Saturday afternoon I saw my inner anger for
what it was. There was no explosion
(which I have done), there was no wrath, but somehow God shone the light of His
love in my life. It exposed my sin (anger)
and I was horrified. Still am. It was there all along, and I never saw it; like
a cancer on my face I refused to see when looking in the mirror.
I thank God He brought this to my
attention. I thank Him even more for His
forgiveness and restoration. Later is
Psalm 51 David will write about “being renewed with a steadfast spirit. Renewal.
I will too.
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