Food For Thought

Lot's of comments about yesterday's posting. Or, as some put it, lack of posting.
I had a reason for the way yesterday's posting went down.
It had been on my heart for sometime, and I had even "seen" it while praying a few day ago. Of course the voices in my mind began to whisper to me."That's crazy....what purpose would it serve?" Let me try to share with you what the posting was all about.

It seems to me that sexual sin of ever shape, form or fashion...is off limits when it comes to God. Oh, we're all up in Jesus, and going to Bible studies is where it's at. But don't let God get down in my business when it comes to sex. That's a hands off topic...taboo....no body's business but mine. The world has planted a flag when it comes to sex and no one or no thing has the right to say what is right or what is wrong.

If I had gone on this blog and begin to write about my views of sexual sin and what the Bible says is acceptable and what isn't...I would have been justified in doing so. Where my belief's lie, the Bible is the final authority, so it truly wouldn't be me espousing my thoughts or my views, it would be a written account of what God says is right and what is wrong.I felt that the simple truth that God says Sexual sin is wrong was what I was suppose to present. God's view, not mine.

Also....I don't have a pick and choose mentality when it comes to sexual sin. Sin is sin....one isn't worse than the other. Yet the church seems to want to rant against one while excusing many others. I mean, let's get real honest here, can we? The greatest sin that permeates the church is pornography. I have heard it referred to as the "secret" sin of the church. Yet you don't hear much said or preached about it. Men, and women, who will be in church today are bound up in this secret sin, yet they will stand and sing "Victory in Jesus". Kind of ironic isn't it? God says, "Stop it!"

By simply stating God's view yesterday..."Stop it" I hoped that everyone who read it would give thought to what was written. There was some great truth there in those two words..."Stop it". God does hate sexual sin. God hates all sin. But standing right next to the hatred He has for sin, is His heart of compassion and love. His desire is that those who are trapped or bound up in sexual sin (not to mention being bound up by sin period) would turn to Him and receive the healing, forgiveness and restoration that only can give.

Our nation has become a people who follow the Judges 21:25 concept. In those days Israel had no king, so the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes.
well, guess what? We of the United States of America, do not have a King. We kicked our King out of the schools back in the early
'60's when we said you could no longer talk to Him (Prayer). We kicked our king to the curb back in the 70's when we said that it was o.k. to shed the blood of the innocent (Abortion). Every day the name of God is pushed farther and farther out of the collective conscience of our nation. We have become so tolerant that if you dare speak out against this view, you are labeled a fanatic, a zealot, a nutjob. You see the one thing we forget is that it doesn't matter what seems right to me or you.....God is the final authority. He has declared right and wrong.....Holy or profane...
I don't get to make that call.
You don't get to make that call.
This rests in the hands of God.

The photo at the top of this posting is a rendering of Jesus clearing the Temple of the all the money changers and sellers of doves and lambs. This was His Father's House....A place of prayer and sacrifice. The world had pushed it's way into the Temple and was plying it's wares there among the Holy things of God. This was more than Jesus could bear. He set about to make a whip of chords and then, like a mad man, ran everyone out. I do not think this is a "Jesus" we often like to thing about. IF Jesus showed up at church this morning would he join in with the worship, or would his anger be kindled by the excusing of sin sitting and worshipping among that which was Holy? Would He drive out those who had secretly brought their sin into His presence and refused to repent and change? Would He grow angry over the mixing of the Holy and the profane? Maybe I have taken this thought too far.
Scripture says that it's the kindness of God that leads to repentance. But it truly is the anger of God that is aroused when blatant sin is held onto and pride rises up within a person and proclaims.."I will not surrender this sin!"
God help us all.
May we ask for sin to be revealed in our own lives.
May we fall to our knees, confessing and repenting of sin.
May we accept the healing rain of Jesus' forgiveness to cleanse us from all iniquity.

God on you....
mb