Do you love God more than you love sin? While the obvious answer for most Christians would be yes, of course, it points out the distinction of metal fortitude that it takes to overcome the things others would tell you are more important in life.
For quite some time, there have been personal struggles that I could not seem to overcome. One day, don’t know where I was, or what I was doing, or what I was getting ready to do, but I realized that every time I sin, the base decision I was making was the love of something over my love for God.
Its not easy hurt a loved one. Guilt usually follows. My sin life was not that way. Some may say that I had not been converted… Whatever. My real problem was that I loved my sin more than I loved my savior.
When I feel myself about to make a decision contrary to the mandates of my Savior, I ask myself, what do I love more, my Sin or my God?
Choose this day whom you will serve, your Sin or your God?
1 comment:
Kev,
Right on, brother.
And I like the passages in Hebrews 3 & 4 that seem to correlate to what you've already said...
- Heb. 3:12-13 "See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness."
- Heb. 3:16 "Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?"
...and Heb. 4:1-2 "Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith." (NIV)
Leaving behind the sin that so easily entangles us to choose the mandates of our Savior is an essential and eternally rewarding choice of life and light conquering death and darkness.
Jesus Christ effects True Change
for a living Hope.
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