As a Christian, I strive to be right according to God's word. Growing up in the church, being taught to love my neighbor as myself, follow the ten commandments, and the only way to Heaven is to ask God to forgive me of my sins and ask his son Jesus into my heart. All of this seems to be the basics of being a Christian, but just as we go to school to learn how to be better or gain more knowledge in a particular life skill, we must do this as Christians.
Over the past several weeks, I've had to ask God to forgive me for being complacent. To forgive me for being at ease, falling short in my prayer life, and time with him. Complacency is dangerous because it's like walking through life with blinders on and thinking everything will be ok. It becomes so easy to allow sin to come in, but the moment you realize it, doing the hard thing and getting rid of that sin becomes difficult.
I acknowledged my sin to You,
And my iniquity I have not hidden. I said,
"I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,"
And You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah
Psalm 32:5 NKJV
The hard thing is to get that sin out and away from us no matter what. In the book of Ezra, God's people ignored the law and married women who did not follow God. The hard thing for these men to do was to hand their wives a bill of divorce and separate themselves from them and their children.
Arise, for this matter, is your responsibility.
We also are with you.
Be of good courage, and do it." Ezra 10:4 NKJV
This may seem cruel to us today, but you have to understand the day and time in which they lived, and Jesus hadn't come to redeem us from the law.
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law,
having become a curse for us
(for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree")
Galatians 13:3
What are you struggling with today, my friend? Is there something that seems challenging to face on your own? For me acknowledging my struggles as a stepmom and acknowledging just how complacent I have gotten in my marriage has been difficult to admit.
Where to go from here
1. Confess your sin to God (If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9 NKJV)
2. Ask for help ("Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need" Hebrews 4:16 NKJV.)
3. Set a time to read your bible (For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. Romans 15:4)
Can I pray with you today?
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